Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Landry, Tom

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

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

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

Abbott, Jim

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

12.

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

Riley, Pat

13.

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

14.

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

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Johnson, Patti

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Indian

18.

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

Lassiter, Luther

19.

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

20.

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

Saroyan, William

21.

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

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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

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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

24.

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.

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

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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.

27.

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

28.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

29.

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

30.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

31.

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

Orpen, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Ross, Ruth

35.

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

Lamb, Charles

36.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

37.

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

Ovid

38.

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

39.

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

Leonard, George

40.

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

Campbell, Earl

41.

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

Trevino, Lee

42.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

43.

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

44.

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

Landry, Tom

45.

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

Saying

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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