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

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

Shakespeare, William

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

11.

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

Oerter, Al

12.

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

Laver, Rod

13.

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

Leonard, George

14.

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.

15.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

16.

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

Orpen, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

Saying

19.

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

20.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

21.

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

22.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

23.

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

24.

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

25.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

26.

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

27.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

29.

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

30.

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

Witt, Katarina

31.

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

Riley, Pat

32.

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

33.

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

Landry, Tom

34.

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

35.

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

Walsh, Bill

36.

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

Berra, Yogi

37.

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

Ross, Ruth

38.

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

39.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

40.

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

Gladiator's Salute

41.

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

42.

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

Beecher, Willard

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

44.

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

Becker, Boris

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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.