Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

4.

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.

5.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

6.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

7.

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

Gladiator's Salute

8.

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

Foyt, A. J.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

12.

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

Ross, Ruth

13.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

17.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

18.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

19.

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

Landry, Tom

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Laver, Rod

22.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Walsh, Bill

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

32.

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

Becker, Boris

33.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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.

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

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

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

Trevino, Lee

38.

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

39.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

42.

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

Campbell, Earl

43.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

44.

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

Proverb, Indian

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

49.

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

Orpen, Robert

50.

Most games are lost, not won.