Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Westphal, Paul

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Durocher, Leo

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

14.

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

Johnson, Patti

15.

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

16.

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

Oerter, Al

17.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

Campbell, Earl

20.

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

Landry, Tom

21.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

22.

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.

23.

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

Brock, Lou

24.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

25.

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

Leonard, George

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

29.

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

30.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

Laver, Rod

40.

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

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

46.

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

Jipcho, Ben

47.

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

Witt, Katarina

48.

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

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.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck