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

1.

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

2.

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

Lamb, Charles

3.

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

Witt, Katarina

4.

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

Trevino, Lee

5.

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

Westphal, Paul

6.

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

Laver, Rod

7.

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

Brock, Lou

8.

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.

9.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

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

14.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

15.

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

Geus, Arie de

16.

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

Berra, Yogi

17.

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

18.

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Saroyan, William

23.

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

Hogan, Ben

24.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

29.

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

30.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

31.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

32.

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

Lassiter, Luther

33.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

34.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

35.

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

Martin, Jerry

36.

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

Foyt, A. J.

37.

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

Oerter, Al

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

40.

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

Orpen, Robert

41.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

42.

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

Saying

43.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

44.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

45.

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

Walsh, Bill

46.

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

47.

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

Landry, Tom

48.

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

49.

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

Abbott, Jim

50.

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