Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

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

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

11.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

12.

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

13.

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

Beecher, Willard

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Becker, Boris

16.

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

Walsh, Bill

17.

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

Leonard, George

18.

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

Laver, Rod

19.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

20.

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

21.

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

Oerter, Al

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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

27.

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

Martin, Jerry

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Landry, Tom

31.

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

Proverb, Indian

32.

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

33.

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

Lamb, Charles

34.

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

35.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

36.

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

Hogan, Ben

37.

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

38.

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

Saying

39.

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

40.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Riley, Pat

44.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.