Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Tarkenton, Fran

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Becker, Boris

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Laver, Rod

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

Orpen, Robert

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.

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

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

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

Leonard, George

10.

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

Campbell, Earl

11.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

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

Landry, Tom

15.

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

Sayers, Gayle

16.

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

Hoagland, Edward

17.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

18.

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

Horne, William Van

19.

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

Cauthen, Steve

20.

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

Witt, Katarina

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

Saying

23.

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

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.

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

Beecher, Willard

26.

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

Foyt, A. J.

27.

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

Brock, Lou

28.

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

Martin, Jerry

29.

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

30.

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

Lamb, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Oerter, Al

33.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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.

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

Westphal, Paul

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Gladiator's Salute

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

42.

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

Trevino, Lee

43.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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