Motivational Quotes

Competition

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.

Best Quotes about Competition

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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 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

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

Oerter, Al

Alexander, Barbara J.

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

10.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

11.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

12.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

13.

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

Foyt, A. J.

14.

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

15.

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

Lamb, Charles

16.

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

Laver, Rod

17.

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

Gladiator's Salute

18.

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

19.

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

Jipcho, Ben

20.

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

21.

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

Westphal, Paul

22.

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

Trevino, Lee

23.

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

24.

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

Beecher, Willard

25.

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

Durocher, Leo

26.

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

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Proverb, Italian

29.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

30.

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

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

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

Sayers, Gayle

35.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

36.

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

Saroyan, William

37.

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

Cauthen, Steve

38.

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

Orpen, Robert

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

Landry, Tom

42.

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

Leonard, George

43.

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

Berra, Yogi

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

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

Lassiter, Luther

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Most games are lost, not won.