Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

2.

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

Cauthen, Steve

3.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

4.

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

Abbott, Jim

5.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

6.

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

Westphal, Paul

7.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

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

Oerter, Al

9.

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

10.

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

Beecher, Willard

11.

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

Saying

12.

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

Sayers, Gayle

13.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Laver, Rod

15.

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

Lassiter, Luther

16.

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.

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Proverb, Indian

20.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

21.

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

Leonard, George

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Witt, Katarina

26.

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

27.

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

Hoagland, Edward

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Brock, Lou

30.

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

Gladiator's Salute

31.

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

Johnson, Patti

32.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

33.

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

34.

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

Orpen, Robert

35.

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

36.

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

Geus, Arie de

37.

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

38.

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

Saroyan, William

39.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

40.

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

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

47.

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

48.

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