Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Landry, Tom

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Martin, Jerry

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Beecher, Willard

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Oerter, Al

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

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

12.

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

Ovid

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.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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.

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

Saying

17.

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

Sayers, Gayle

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Orpen, Robert

22.

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

Geus, Arie de

23.

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

Brock, Lou

24.

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

25.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

26.

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

27.

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

Lassiter, Luther

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Ross, Ruth

32.

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

33.

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

Walsh, Bill

34.

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

35.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

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

37.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

38.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

39.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

40.

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

Gladiator's Salute

41.

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

42.

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

Landry, Tom

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Hogan, Ben

48.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

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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.