Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Westphal, Paul

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

10.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

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

Orpen, Robert

14.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

16.

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

Brock, Lou

17.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

18.

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

19.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Ovid

25.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Indian

28.

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

Landry, Tom

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

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

Abbott, Jim

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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.

37.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

38.

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

39.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

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

41.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

42.

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

Walsh, Bill

43.

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

44.

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

Horne, William Van

45.

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

Saroyan, William

46.

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

47.

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

Oerter, Al

48.

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

Gladiator's Salute

49.

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

Riley, Pat

50.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.