Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Becker, Boris

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lamb, Charles

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

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

Tarkenton, Fran

10.

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

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 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

13.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

14.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

15.

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

16.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

17.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

18.

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

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Riley, Pat

24.

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

Sayers, Gayle

25.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

29.

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

30.

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

Jipcho, Ben

31.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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.

33.

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

Orpen, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Indian

36.

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

37.

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

Ovid

38.

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

Beecher, Willard

39.

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

Walsh, Bill

40.

Playing safe is only playing.