Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Campbell, Earl

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Witt, Katarina

10.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

13.

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

Lassiter, Luther

14.

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

Durocher, Leo

15.

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

Foyt, A. J.

16.

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

Proverb, Indian

17.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

18.

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

Abbott, Jim

19.

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

20.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Johnson, Patti

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Orpen, Robert

27.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

28.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

29.

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

Laver, Rod

30.

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

Hogan, Ben

31.

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

Westphal, Paul

32.

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

33.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

34.

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

35.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Willard

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Brock, Lou

41.

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

Saroyan, William

42.

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