Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Landry, Tom

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Oerter, Al

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Kennedy, John F.

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

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

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

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

10.

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

Martin, Jerry

11.

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

Foyt, A. J.

12.

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

Witt, Katarina

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

18.

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

19.

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

Geus, Arie de

20.

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

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

23.

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

Saroyan, William

24.

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

25.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

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

27.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

28.

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

Walsh, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

Cauthen, Steve

31.

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

Leonard, George

32.

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

33.

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

34.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

41.

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

Abbott, Jim

42.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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