Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

2.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

3.

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

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

6.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

7.

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

Witt, Katarina

8.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

9.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Sayers, Gayle

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.

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

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Oerter, Al

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Saroyan, William

20.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

21.

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

Beecher, Willard

22.

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

23.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

24.

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

Westphal, Paul

25.

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

Abbott, Jim

26.

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

Trevino, Lee

27.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

28.

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

29.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

30.

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.

31.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

32.

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

Leonard, George

33.

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

Cauthen, Steve

34.

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

Hogan, Ben

35.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

36.

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

Walsh, Bill

37.

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

Jipcho, Ben

38.

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

Campbell, Earl

39.

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

Lassiter, Luther

40.

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

41.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

42.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

43.

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

Lamb, Charles

44.

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

Martin, Jerry

45.

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

46.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

47.

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

Durocher, Leo

48.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

49.

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.