Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Orpen, Robert

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Proverb, Italian

2.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

3.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Indian

7.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

8.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

9.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

10.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

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

Landry, Tom

13.

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

Jipcho, Ben

14.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

15.

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

16.

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

Brock, Lou

17.

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

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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

20.

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

Martin, Jerry

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

23.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

24.

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

Lassiter, Luther

25.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

26.

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

Beecher, Willard

27.

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

Walsh, Bill

28.

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

29.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

30.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

31.

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

Westphal, Paul

32.

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

Johnson, Patti

33.

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

Gladiator's Salute

34.

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

35.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

36.

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

Trevino, Lee

37.

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

Geus, Arie de

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Orpen, Robert

43.

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

44.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

45.

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

Hoagland, Edward

46.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

47.

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

Cauthen, Steve

48.

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

49.

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

50.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William