Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

Landry, Tom

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

10.

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

Orpen, Robert

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

13.

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Hogan, Ben

14.

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

Brock, Lou

15.

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

16.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

17.

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.

18.

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

Sayers, Gayle

19.

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

Westphal, Paul

20.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

21.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

24.

I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

25.

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

26.

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

Hoagland, Edward

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Saying

30.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

31.

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

32.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Abbott, Jim

34.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

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

Walsh, Bill

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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

39.

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

Saroyan, William

40.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Lassiter, Luther

42.

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

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

45.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Ovid

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