Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Becker, Boris

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Berra, Yogi

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Laver, Rod

10.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

11.

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

Abbott, Jim

12.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

13.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

14.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

15.

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

16.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

17.

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

Becker, Boris

18.

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

Gladiator's Salute

19.

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

Saying

20.

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

21.

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

Witt, Katarina

22.

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

Leonard, George

23.

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

Saroyan, William

24.

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

25.

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

26.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

27.

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

Martin, Jerry

28.

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

Landry, Tom

29.

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

30.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

31.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

32.

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

33.

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

Lamb, Charles

34.

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

Brock, Lou

35.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

36.

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

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.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

39.

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

Durocher, Leo

40.

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

41.

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

Westphal, Paul

42.

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

Riley, Pat

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Indian

45.

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

Lassiter, Luther

46.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

47.

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

48.

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

Trevino, Lee

49.

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.

50.

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

Oerter, Al