Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Abbott, Jim

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Lamb, Charles

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

10.

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

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.

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.

13.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

14.

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

Gladiator's Salute

15.

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

Hogan, Ben

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

20.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

21.

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

Sayers, Gayle

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Indian

24.

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

Beecher, Willard

25.

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

Geus, Arie de

26.

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

27.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

28.

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

Durocher, Leo

29.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

32.

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

Campbell, Earl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Johnson, Patti

36.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

Laver, Rod

38.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

39.

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

Oerter, Al

40.

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

41.

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

Becker, Boris

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

46.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

47.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

48.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

49.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

50.

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