Motivational Quotes

Competition

He can run but he can't hide.

- Louis, Joe

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Becker, Boris

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

Laver, Rod

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Shoemaker, Willie

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cauthen, Steve

13.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

14.

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

Saying

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

21.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

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

Sayers, Gayle

23.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

24.

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

25.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

26.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

27.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

28.

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

Martin, Jerry

29.

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

30.

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

Geus, Arie de

31.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

32.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

33.

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

Trevino, Lee

34.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

35.

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

36.

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

Foyt, A. J.

37.

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

Landry, Tom

38.

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

Oerter, Al

39.

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

40.

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

Lassiter, Luther

41.

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

Lamb, Charles

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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

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

Brock, Lou

48.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

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

Proverb, Indian

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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