Motivational Quotes

Competition

You must play boldly to win.

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Foyt, A. J.

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.

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

Witt, Katarina

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

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

Geus, Arie de

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

Ross, Ruth

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

Becker, Boris

10.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

11.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

12.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

13.

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

14.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland

15.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

16.

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

Oerter, Al

17.

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

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

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

20.

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

Martin, Jerry

21.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

22.

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

23.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

24.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

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

Campbell, Earl

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

31.

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.

32.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

33.

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

Hoagland, Edward

34.

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

35.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

36.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

37.

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

38.

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

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

Orpen, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Leonard, George

42.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

43.

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

Riley, Pat

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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.