Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Foyt, A. J.

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

2.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

Riley, Pat

4.

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

Jipcho, Ben

5.

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

Lamb, Charles

6.

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

Landry, Tom

7.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

8.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

9.

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

Horne, William Van

10.

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

Geus, Arie de

11.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

12.

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

Sayers, Gayle

13.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

14.

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

Brock, Lou

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Lassiter, Luther

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

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

19.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Martin, Jerry

21.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

22.

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

Durocher, Leo

23.

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

Hoagland, Edward

24.

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

Orpen, Robert

25.

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

26.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

27.

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

Ross, Ruth

28.

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

Walsh, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

Oerter, Al

31.

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

32.

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

Cauthen, Steve

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Hogan, Ben

37.

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

38.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

39.

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

40.

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

Laver, Rod

41.

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

Beecher, Willard

42.

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

Witt, Katarina

43.

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

44.

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

Westphal, Paul

45.

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

46.

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

Berra, Yogi

47.

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

Saroyan, William

48.

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

49.

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