Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Horne, William Van

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Proverb, Italian

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

11.

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

Laver, Rod

12.

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

13.

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

Oerter, Al

14.

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

Lamb, Charles

15.

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

16.

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

Durocher, Leo

17.

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

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

19.

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

Westphal, Paul

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Lassiter, Luther

23.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

24.

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

Becker, Boris

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Gladiator's Salute

27.

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

Landry, Tom

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

29.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

30.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

34.

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

Orpen, Robert

35.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

36.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

37.

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

Saying

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Martin, Jerry

41.

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

Saroyan, William

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

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

Geus, Arie de

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Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Hamill, Dorothy

48.

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

Trevino, Lee

49.

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

50.

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