Motivational Quotes

Competition

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

- Kramer, Jerry

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

2.

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

Ovid

3.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

4.

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

Sayers, Gayle

5.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

8.

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

9.

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

Jipcho, Ben

10.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Patti

13.

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

Saroyan, William

14.

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

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 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

17.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

18.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

19.

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

Martin, Jerry

20.

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

21.

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

Saying

22.

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

23.

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

Campbell, Earl

24.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

25.

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

Proverb, Indian

26.

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

27.

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

Lassiter, Luther

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Laver, Rod

31.

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

32.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

33.

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

Westphal, Paul

34.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Cauthen, Steve

38.

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

39.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Lamb, Charles

41.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

43.

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

44.

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

45.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

46.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

47.

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

Proverb, Italian

48.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

49.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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