Motivational Quotes

Competition

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

- Hogan, Ben

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

2.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

3.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

4.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

5.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

6.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

7.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Shoemaker, Willie

8.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

9.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

10.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

11.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

12.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

13.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

14.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

15.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

17.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Smith, Dean

18.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

19.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

21.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

22.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

23.

These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

24.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

25.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

26.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

27.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

28.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

29.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Cooley, Charles Horton

30.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

31.

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

32.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

33.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

34.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

35.

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

36.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

37.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre

38.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

39.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

40.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

41.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.