Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Orpen, Robert

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Landry, Tom

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

10.

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

Hogan, Ben

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

16.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

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

Johnson, Patti

19.

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

Proverb, Indian

20.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

21.

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

Jipcho, Ben

22.

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

Berra, Yogi

23.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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.

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.

26.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

29.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

30.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

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

32.

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

Becker, Boris

33.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

35.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

36.

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

Leonard, George

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

Beecher, Willard

38.

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

Horne, William Van

39.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

40.

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

Saying

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Saroyan, William

43.

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

Westphal, Paul

44.

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

45.

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

Laver, Rod

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

49.

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

Oerter, Al

50.

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.