Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Martin, Jerry

Best Quotes about Competition

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.

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

Landry, Tom

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

Leonard, George

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

10.

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

Martin, Jerry

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

15.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

16.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

17.

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

Beecher, Willard

18.

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

Foyt, A. J.

19.

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

20.

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

Laver, Rod

21.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Patti

26.

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

27.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

28.

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

Westphal, Paul

29.

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

Orpen, Robert

30.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

32.

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

Walsh, Bill

33.

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

34.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

35.

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

36.

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

Abbott, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

Horne, William Van

39.

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

40.

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

Witt, Katarina

41.

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

42.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

43.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

44.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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