Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Shakespeare, William

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Trevino, Lee

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sayers, Gayle

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

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

Durocher, Leo

14.

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

Oerter, Al

15.

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

Hogan, Ben

16.

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

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

18.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Geus, Arie de

22.

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

Johnson, Patti

23.

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

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.

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

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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

Beecher, Willard

28.

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

Witt, Katarina

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

31.

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

32.

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

Gladiator's Salute

33.

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

Landry, Tom

34.

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

Campbell, Earl

35.

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

36.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Proverb, Indian

38.

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

39.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

40.

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

Laver, Rod

41.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

42.

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

Becker, Boris

43.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

44.

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

Saying

45.

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

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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.

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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

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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

49.

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

Martin, Jerry

50.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt