Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Lamb, Charles

Best Quotes about Competition

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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

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

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Lamb, Charles

When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Witt, Katarina

10.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Foyt, A. J.

15.

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

Saroyan, William

16.

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

Beecher, Willard

17.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

18.

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

19.

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

Durocher, Leo

20.

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

Leonard, George

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

Horne, William Van

23.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

24.

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

Walsh, Bill

25.

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

26.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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.

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

Orpen, Robert

29.

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

Cauthen, Steve

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

Landry, Tom

37.

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

Abbott, Jim

38.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

39.

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

Johnson, Patti

40.

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

41.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Shoemaker, Willie

43.

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

Gladiator's Salute

44.

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

45.

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.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Becker, Boris

50.

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