Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

Witt, Katarina

4.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

5.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

6.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

7.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

8.

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

Abbott, Jim

9.

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

Hogan, Ben

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

12.

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

Geus, Arie de

13.

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

Berra, Yogi

14.

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

Landry, Tom

15.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

16.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

Brock, Lou

19.

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

Walsh, Bill

20.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

21.

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

Saroyan, William

22.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

23.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

24.

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

Sayers, Gayle

25.

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

Beecher, Willard

26.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

27.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

28.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

29.

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

Westphal, Paul

30.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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

Jipcho, Ben

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

35.

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

36.

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

37.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

38.

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

39.

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

Martin, Jerry

40.

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

Orpen, Robert

41.

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

42.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

43.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

44.

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

Oerter, Al

45.

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

46.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

47.

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.

48.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

49.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

50.

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