Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must play boldly to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

2.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

3.

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

Laver, Rod

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

8.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

9.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

10.

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

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.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Durocher, Leo

16.

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

Trevino, Lee

17.

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

Martin, Jerry

18.

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

19.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

20.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

24.

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

Campbell, Earl

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Indian

27.

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

Landry, Tom

28.

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

Abbott, Jim

29.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Brock, Lou

31.

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

Jipcho, Ben

32.

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

Lassiter, Luther

33.

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

Ross, Ruth

34.

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

Cauthen, Steve

35.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

36.

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

Lamb, Charles

37.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Geus, Arie de

40.

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

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

43.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

44.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

45.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

46.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

48.

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

Orpen, Robert

49.

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

50.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''