Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hogan, Ben

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.

Walsh, Bill

2.

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

3.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

4.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

5.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

6.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

7.

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

Trevino, Lee

8.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

9.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

11.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

12.

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

13.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

14.

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

Proverb, Indian

15.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

19.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

20.

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

Jipcho, Ben

21.

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

23.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

24.

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

25.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

27.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

28.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Johnson, Patti

30.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

31.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

34.

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

35.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

36.

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

37.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

38.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

39.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

40.

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

41.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Beecher, Willard

43.

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

Foyt, A. J.

44.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

45.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

48.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

49.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

50.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou