Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Leonard, George

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Westphal, Paul

5.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

6.

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

Geus, Arie de

7.

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

Abbott, Jim

8.

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

Proverb, Indian

9.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

10.

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

Johnson, Patti

11.

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

12.

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

Saroyan, William

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

Gladiator's Salute

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Walsh, Bill

18.

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

Cauthen, Steve

19.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

20.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

21.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Willard

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Martin, Jerry

30.

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

Lamb, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

34.

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

Saying

35.

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