Motivational Quotes

Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

- Chamberlain, Wilt

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Saroyan, William

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

Berra, Yogi

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

10.

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

11.

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

Westphal, Paul

12.

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

13.

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

Geus, Arie de

14.

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

15.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

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

Cauthen, Steve

17.

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

18.

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

Laver, Rod

19.

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

20.

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

Abbott, Jim

21.

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

22.

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

Campbell, Earl

23.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

24.

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

Ross, Ruth

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

28.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

29.

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

30.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

31.

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

32.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

33.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

34.

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

Witt, Katarina

35.

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

Hoagland, Edward

36.

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

Hogan, Ben

37.

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

38.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

39.

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

Landry, Tom

40.

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

Becker, Boris

41.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

43.

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

Walsh, Bill

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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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.

48.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

49.

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

Brock, Lou

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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