Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Jipcho, Ben

Best Quotes about Competition

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

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

Durocher, Leo

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Leonard, George

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

11.

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

Cauthen, Steve

12.

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

13.

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

Brock, Lou

14.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

15.

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

Saroyan, William

16.

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

17.

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

Trevino, Lee

18.

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

Martin, Jerry

19.

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

Campbell, Earl

20.

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

Gladiator's Salute

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

24.

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

Walsh, Bill

25.

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

26.

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

Landry, Tom

27.

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

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

Proverb, Indian

30.

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

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

32.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

33.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Geus, Arie de

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

38.

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

Sayers, Gayle

39.

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

Saying

40.

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

Orpen, Robert

41.

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

42.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

43.

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

44.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

46.

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

47.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

48.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

49.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

50.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.