Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Martin, Jerry

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

10.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

11.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

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

16.

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

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

Witt, Katarina

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Orpen, Robert

25.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

26.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

27.

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

Durocher, Leo

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Campbell, Earl

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Patti

33.

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

Geus, Arie de

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

36.

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

Brock, Lou

37.

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

Leonard, George

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Saying

42.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

43.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Walsh, Bill

45.

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

46.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

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

Beecher, Willard

48.

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

49.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.