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

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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

Ross, Ruth

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

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

Becker, Boris

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Berra, Yogi

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Lamb, Charles

10.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

11.

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.

12.

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

Orpen, Robert

13.

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

Witt, Katarina

14.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Durocher, Leo

20.

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

Westphal, Paul

21.

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

Cauthen, Steve

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Johnson, Patti

24.

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

25.

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

Leonard, George

26.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

29.

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

Saying

30.

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

Walsh, Bill

31.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Ovid

33.

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

34.

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

Hoagland, Edward

35.

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

Martin, Jerry

36.

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

37.

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

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 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

41.

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

Trevino, Lee

42.

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

43.

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

Campbell, Earl

44.

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

Lassiter, Luther

45.

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.

46.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

47.

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

Sayers, Gayle

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.