Motivational Quotes

Competition

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

- Burrus, Daniel

Best Quotes about Competition

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 only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

Brock, Lou

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

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

Proverb, Italian

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

10.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

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

12.

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

Witt, Katarina

13.

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

Beecher, Willard

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

16.

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

Hoagland, Edward

17.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

18.

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.

19.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

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

Westphal, Paul

21.

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

Landry, Tom

22.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

23.

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

24.

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

Oerter, Al

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Cauthen, Steve

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

34.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

35.

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

36.

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

Durocher, Leo

37.

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

38.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

39.

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

Orpen, Robert

40.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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

Walsh, Bill

43.

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

Proverb, Indian

44.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

45.

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

Campbell, Earl

46.

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

Sayers, Gayle

47.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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

Saroyan, William