Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Saroyan, William

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

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

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

Geus, Arie de

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

10.

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

Laver, Rod

11.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

12.

Mansell, Nigel

13.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

14.

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

Orpen, Robert

15.

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

Walsh, Bill

16.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

17.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Cauthen, Steve

19.

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

Martin, Jerry

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

Johnson, Patti

24.

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

Horne, William Van

25.

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

Durocher, Leo

26.

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

Oerter, Al

27.

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.

28.

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

Saying

29.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

30.

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

Trevino, Lee

31.

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

Proverb, Indian

32.

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

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

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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

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

37.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

Campbell, Earl

42.

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

43.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

44.

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

Lamb, Charles

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ross, Ruth

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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

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

Shoemaker, Willie

49.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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