Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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

Saying

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

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

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

10.

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.

11.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

12.

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

Beecher, Willard

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Trevino, Lee

15.

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

Ross, Ruth

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hoagland, Edward

19.

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

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

22.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

23.

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

Leonard, George

24.

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

25.

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

Campbell, Earl

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

28.

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

Geus, Arie de

29.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

30.

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

Witt, Katarina

31.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

32.

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

33.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Becker, Boris

37.

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

Landry, Tom

38.

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

Durocher, Leo

39.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

Martin, Jerry

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Patti

44.

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

45.

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

Brock, Lou

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

48.

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

49.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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

Gladiator's Salute