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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Trevino, Lee

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Orpen, Robert

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

Becker, Boris

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

Shakespeare, William

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

10.

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

Walsh, Bill

11.

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

12.

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

Oerter, Al

13.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

14.

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

Laver, Rod

15.

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

Saying

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Witt, Katarina

19.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

20.

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

Durocher, Leo

21.

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

22.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Lassiter, Luther

26.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

27.

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

28.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

29.

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

Ross, Ruth

30.

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

Saroyan, William

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Abbott, Jim

33.

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

34.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

35.

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

Beecher, Willard

36.

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

37.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

38.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

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.

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.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

46.

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

Lamb, Charles

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

50.

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

Martin, Jerry