Motivational Quotes

Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Abbott, Jim

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Johnson, Patti

10.

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

Gladiator's Salute

11.

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

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

13.

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

Durocher, Leo

14.

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

Cauthen, Steve

15.

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

16.

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

Laver, Rod

17.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Becker, Boris

22.

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

23.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

24.

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

Lamb, Charles

25.

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

Sayers, Gayle

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Indian

28.

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

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.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Foyt, A. J.

34.

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

Witt, Katarina

35.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

36.

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

Landry, Tom

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Ovid

41.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

42.

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

Hoagland, Edward

43.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.