Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Horne, William Van

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Saying

11.

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

Landry, Tom

12.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

13.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

14.

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

15.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

16.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Brock, Lou

22.

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

23.

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

Geus, Arie de

24.

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

25.

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

Durocher, Leo

26.

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

Laver, Rod

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Indian

31.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lamb, Charles

36.

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

Sayers, Gayle

37.

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

Becker, Boris

38.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

39.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Ross, Ruth

44.

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

Oerter, Al

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

47.

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

48.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

Leonard, George

49.

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

Westphal, Paul

50.

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

Foyt, A. J.