Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

Orpen, Robert

3.

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

4.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

5.

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

6.

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

Saroyan, William

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Lamb, Charles

9.

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

Gladiator's Salute

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

12.

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

Witt, Katarina

13.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

14.

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

Foyt, A. J.

15.

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

Brock, Lou

16.

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

Martin, Jerry

17.

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

18.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

19.

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

20.

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

Becker, Boris

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

23.

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

Ross, Ruth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

27.

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.

28.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Landry, Tom

31.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Johnson, Patti

33.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

34.

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

35.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

36.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

43.

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

Cauthen, Steve

44.

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

Walsh, Bill

45.

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

Jipcho, Ben

46.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

47.

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

Westphal, Paul

48.

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

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

Durocher, Leo