Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Witt, Katarina

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, Italian

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

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

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

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.

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

Ovid

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

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

14.

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

Lassiter, Luther

15.

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

16.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

17.

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

Becker, Boris

18.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Horne, William Van

22.

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

23.

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

Walsh, Bill

24.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

25.

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

Sayers, Gayle

26.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Gladiator's Salute

28.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

29.

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

Hoagland, Edward

30.

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

Hogan, Ben

31.

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

32.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Riley, Pat

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

42.

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

Ross, Ruth

43.

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

Leonard, George

44.

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

45.

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

Westphal, Paul

46.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

47.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.