Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Kennedy, John F.

5.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Berra, Yogi

7.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

8.

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

Saroyan, William

9.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

10.

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

Geus, Arie de

11.

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

Lassiter, Luther

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Ross, Ruth

14.

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

15.

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

Cauthen, Steve

16.

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

Gladiator's Salute

17.

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

Witt, Katarina

18.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Walsh, Bill

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

24.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

25.

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

26.

The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

27.

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

Horne, William Van

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Leonard, George

31.

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

Oerter, Al

32.

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

Westphal, Paul

33.

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

Durocher, Leo

34.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

35.

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

Becker, Boris

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

43.

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

Lamb, Charles

44.

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

Jipcho, Ben

45.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

46.

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

47.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

48.

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

49.

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

Sayers, Gayle

50.

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

Trevino, Lee