Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

2.

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

3.

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

Sayers, Gayle

4.

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

5.

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

Cauthen, Steve

6.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

7.

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.

8.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

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

Becker, Boris

13.

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

Durocher, Leo

14.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

15.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

16.

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

Hoagland, Edward

17.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lassiter, Luther

24.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

25.

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

Saying

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Leonard, George

29.

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

Westphal, Paul

30.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Patti

33.

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

Trevino, Lee

34.

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

Berra, Yogi

35.

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

Lamb, Charles

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

39.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

40.

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

41.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

42.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

43.

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

Abbott, Jim

44.

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

45.

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

Gladiator's Salute

46.

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

47.

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

Foyt, A. J.

48.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

49.

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

50.

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