Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hoagland, Edward

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Laver, Rod

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

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

Brock, Lou

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

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

Beecher, Willard

10.

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

Riley, Pat

11.

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

12.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

13.

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

Ross, Ruth

14.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

15.

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

16.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

18.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

19.

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

20.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

21.

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

Lassiter, Luther

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

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

24.

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

Walsh, Bill

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Foyt, A. J.

28.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

29.

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

Landry, Tom

30.

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

Westphal, Paul

31.

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

Cauthen, Steve

32.

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

33.

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

Saying

34.

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

Johnson, Patti

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Martin, Jerry

38.

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

Geus, Arie de

39.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

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

Lamb, Charles

41.

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.

42.

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

Proverb, Indian

43.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Gladiator's Salute

47.

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

48.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

49.

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

50.

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