Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Laver, Rod

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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

Campbell, Earl

10.

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

Oerter, Al

11.

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

Martin, Jerry

12.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Orpen, Robert

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

23.

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

Landry, Tom

24.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

25.

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

26.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Riley, Pat

30.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

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

Abbott, Jim

33.

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

Ross, Ruth

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

36.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

37.

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

Becker, Boris

38.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

40.

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

Walsh, Bill

41.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

42.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

43.

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

44.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

45.

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

Trevino, Lee

46.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

47.

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