Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Landry, Tom

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

10.

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

Walsh, Bill

11.

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

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

Becker, Boris

14.

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

Orpen, Robert

15.

Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

16.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

17.

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

Lassiter, Luther

18.

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

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

21.

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

Ovid

22.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

23.

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

Hoagland, Edward

24.

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

Foyt, A. J.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Ross, Ruth

31.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

32.

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

33.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

37.

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

38.

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

Durocher, Leo

39.

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

Johnson, Patti

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.

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

Oerter, Al

42.

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

Laver, Rod

43.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

44.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Shoemaker, Willie

50.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew