Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Johnson, Patti

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

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

Proverb, Indian

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

Saroyan, William

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

Orpen, Robert

10.

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

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Lamb, Charles

14.

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

15.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

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

17.

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

Martin, Jerry

18.

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

Trevino, Lee

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Brock, Lou

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

25.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

28.

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

Cauthen, Steve

29.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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.

31.

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

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.

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

Johnson, Patti

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

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

Saying

36.

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

37.

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

Oerter, Al

38.

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

39.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Walsh, Bill

44.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

45.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

48.

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

Horne, William Van

49.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

50.

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

Campbell, Earl