Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Leonard, George

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

Laver, Rod

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Cauthen, Steve

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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.

11.

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

Horne, William Van

12.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

13.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

14.

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

15.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

16.

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

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Ross, Ruth

19.

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

Westphal, Paul

20.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

21.

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

Hogan, Ben

22.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

23.

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

Gladiator's Salute

24.

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

25.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

26.

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

Trevino, Lee

27.

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

28.

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

29.

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

Leonard, George

30.

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

31.

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

Lassiter, Luther

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

35.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

36.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

37.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

38.

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

39.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

40.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Saroyan, William

44.

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

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Durocher, Leo

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Indian

49.

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

50.

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

Landry, Tom