Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Laver, Rod

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.

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Oerter, Al

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

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

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

Hoagland, Edward

11.

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

Orpen, Robert

12.

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

Landry, Tom

13.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

14.

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

Jipcho, Ben

15.

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

16.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Geus, Arie de

18.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

19.

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

Ross, Ruth

20.

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

21.

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

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

Saying

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Saroyan, William

27.

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

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Gladiator's Salute

29.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

32.

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

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

Lamb, Charles

34.

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

35.

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

Johnson, Patti

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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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I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

38.

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

Trevino, Lee

39.

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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Durocher, Leo

43.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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

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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

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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

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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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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

49.

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

Cauthen, Steve

50.

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

Abbott, Jim