Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Campbell, Earl

10.

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

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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

12.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

15.

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

Laver, Rod

16.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Ross, Ruth

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

26.

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

27.

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

Westphal, Paul

28.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Landry, Tom

30.

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

Horne, William Van

31.

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

32.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

33.

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

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

Abbott, Jim

36.

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

Johnson, Patti

37.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

38.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

39.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

40.

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

Saroyan, William

41.

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

Lassiter, Luther

42.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

43.

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

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

Saying

45.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Ovid

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.