Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Ovid

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

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

Hoagland, Edward

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

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10.

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

Jipcho, Ben

11.

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

Beecher, Willard

12.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Proverb, Indian

14.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

15.

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

Oerter, Al

16.

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

17.

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

Abbott, Jim

18.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

19.

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

20.

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

Becker, Boris

21.

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

Johnson, Patti

22.

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

Westphal, Paul

23.

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

Lassiter, Luther

24.

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

Ross, Ruth

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

27.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

28.

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

29.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

30.

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

Cauthen, Steve

31.

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

Martin, Jerry

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Brock, Lou

35.

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.

36.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

37.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

38.

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

39.

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

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.

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

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.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

44.

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

Trevino, Lee

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