Motivational Quotes

Competition

Playing safe is only playing.

- Olson, Chuck

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Campbell, Earl

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

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

Horne, William Van

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

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Martin, Jerry

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

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

13.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Oerter, Al

17.

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

Ross, Ruth

18.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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.

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

Durocher, Leo

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.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

23.

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

Witt, Katarina

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Laver, Rod

27.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

Trevino, Lee

31.

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

32.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

33.

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

Landry, Tom

34.

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

35.

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

Brock, Lou

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Hogan, Ben

41.

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

Orpen, Robert

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.

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

Leonard, George

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Foyt, A. J.

48.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

49.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

50.

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