Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Durocher, Leo

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

Becker, Boris

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Shoemaker, Willie

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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

Lamb, Charles

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

10.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

11.

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

Orpen, Robert

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Oerter, Al

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Landry, Tom

22.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

28.

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

Jipcho, Ben

29.

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

Hogan, Ben

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.

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

Walsh, Bill

32.

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

Westphal, Paul

33.

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

Horne, William Van

34.

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

Beecher, Willard

35.

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

Foyt, A. J.

36.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Saroyan, William

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.

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

Proverb, Indian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Geus, Arie de

46.

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

Trevino, Lee

47.

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

48.

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

Hoagland, Edward

49.

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

50.

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