Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Horne, William Van

Best Quotes about Competition

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Saying

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

19.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Becker, Boris

23.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

24.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Walsh, Bill

30.

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

31.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

32.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

33.

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

Horne, William Van

34.

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

Brock, Lou

35.

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

36.

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

Hogan, Ben

37.

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

38.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

39.

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

Sayers, Gayle

40.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

41.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

42.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

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

Ross, Ruth

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

46.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

47.

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

Cauthen, Steve

48.

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

49.

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

50.

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

Orpen, Robert