Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Kennedy, John F.

2.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

3.

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

Oerter, Al

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

7.

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

Hoagland, Edward

8.

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

Proverb, Italian

9.

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

10.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

11.

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

Walsh, Bill

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

14.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

15.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

16.

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

Witt, Katarina

17.

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

Foyt, A. J.

18.

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

19.

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

Jipcho, Ben

20.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

21.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

22.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

23.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Horne, William Van

27.

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

Riley, Pat

28.

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

Abbott, Jim

29.

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

30.

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

Durocher, Leo

31.

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

Gladiator's Salute

32.

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

Saying

33.

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

Becker, Boris

34.

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

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Ross, Ruth

39.

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

Lamb, Charles

40.

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

Martin, Jerry

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Proverb, Indian

45.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

46.

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

Saroyan, William

47.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

48.

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

Johnson, Patti

49.

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

Brock, Lou

50.

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