Motivational Quotes

Competition

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

- Jamieson, Mrs.

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

Foyt, A. J.

3.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

4.

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

Saying

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Horne, William Van

9.

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

Campbell, Earl

10.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

11.

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

12.

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

Landry, Tom

13.

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

Johnson, Patti

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Sayers, Gayle

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Leonard, George

21.

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

22.

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

Martin, Jerry

23.

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

Ross, Ruth

24.

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

Hoagland, Edward

25.

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

26.

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

Walsh, Bill

27.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

28.

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

Gladiator's Salute

29.

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

30.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

31.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

32.

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

Abbott, Jim

33.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

38.

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

Lamb, Charles

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

42.

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

43.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Cauthen, Steve

48.

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

49.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

50.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela