Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Orpen, Robert

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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

Durocher, Leo

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

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Walsh, Bill

10.

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

11.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Cauthen, Steve

14.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Witt, Katarina

18.

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

Trevino, Lee

19.

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

Berra, Yogi

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Horne, William Van

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Patti

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

29.

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

Campbell, Earl

30.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

31.

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

32.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Leonard, George

35.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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

Becker, Boris

37.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

38.

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

39.

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

Lassiter, Luther

40.

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

Brock, Lou

41.

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

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.