Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Oerter, Al

2.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

3.

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.

4.

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

Gladiator's Salute

5.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

6.

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

Lamb, Charles

7.

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

Jipcho, Ben

8.

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

9.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

10.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

11.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

12.

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

Westphal, Paul

13.

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

Martin, Jerry

14.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

15.

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

16.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

17.

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

18.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

19.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

20.

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

Trevino, Lee

21.

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

22.

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

Hogan, Ben

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Horne, William Van

26.

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

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

31.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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

Saroyan, William

33.

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

Ross, Ruth

34.

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

Foyt, A. J.

35.

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

Berra, Yogi

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Landry, Tom

38.

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

Brock, Lou

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

Proverb, Indian

42.

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

43.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

44.

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

Saying

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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

Hoagland, Edward

47.

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

Beecher, Willard

48.

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

49.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre

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.

Stenmark, Ingemar