Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Abbott, Jim

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Jipcho, Ben

3.

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

Horne, William Van

4.

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

Brock, Lou

5.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

6.

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

Gladiator's Salute

7.

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

8.

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

Cauthen, Steve

9.

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

10.

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

Lassiter, Luther

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Landry, Tom

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

Laver, Rod

18.

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

19.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

20.

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

21.

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

Foyt, A. J.

22.

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

Sayers, Gayle

23.

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

Proverb, Indian

24.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

27.

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

28.

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

Martin, Jerry

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Johnson, Patti

31.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

32.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

33.

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

Hogan, Ben

34.

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

Walsh, Bill

35.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

38.

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

Becker, Boris

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

46.

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

Leonard, George

47.

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

48.

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

Abbott, Jim

49.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

50.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon