Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Campbell, Earl

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Trevino, Lee

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Laver, Rod

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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.

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

Lassiter, Luther

10.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

11.

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

12.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

13.

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

Geus, Arie de

14.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

16.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

18.

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

Saroyan, William

19.

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

Oerter, Al

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Becker, Boris

23.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

24.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

26.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

27.

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

28.

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

Horne, William Van

29.

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

30.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

31.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

32.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

33.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

36.

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

Brock, Lou

37.

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

Lamb, Charles

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Landry, Tom

41.

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

Westphal, Paul

42.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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.

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

45.

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

Gladiator's Salute

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

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

Saying

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