Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Campbell, Earl

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

Foyt, A. J.

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

Orpen, Robert

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

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

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

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

Witt, Katarina

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Becker, Boris

12.

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.

13.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

14.

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

Laver, Rod

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

17.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

18.

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

19.

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

Ross, Ruth

20.

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

Hogan, Ben

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Walsh, Bill

24.

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

Martin, Jerry

25.

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

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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

27.

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

Beecher, Willard

28.

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

29.

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

Horne, William Van

30.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

31.

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

Lamb, Charles

32.

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

Geus, Arie de

33.

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

Riley, Pat

34.

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

35.

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

Abbott, Jim

36.

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

37.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

45.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

46.

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

Oerter, Al

47.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Lassiter, Luther