Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Westphal, Paul

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

10.

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

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

12.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Sayers, Gayle

14.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

15.

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

16.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

17.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

18.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Ross, Ruth

20.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Laver, Rod

24.

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

Hoagland, Edward

25.

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

26.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

27.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

28.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

29.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

30.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

31.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Becker, Boris

36.

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

37.

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

Gladiator's Salute

38.

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

Trevino, Lee

39.

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

Jipcho, Ben

40.

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

Martin, Jerry

41.

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

42.

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

Johnson, Patti

43.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

44.

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

Durocher, Leo

45.

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

46.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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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.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

50.

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

Landry, Tom