Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Lamb, Charles

2.

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

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

Witt, Katarina

4.

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

Walsh, Bill

5.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

6.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

7.

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

Proverb, Italian

8.

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

Ovid

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

14.

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

Campbell, Earl

15.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

16.

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

17.

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

Gladiator's Salute

18.

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

Saying

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.

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

21.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

22.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

23.

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

Westphal, Paul

24.

Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

25.

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

Ross, Ruth

26.

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

27.

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

Oerter, Al

28.

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

29.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

30.

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

Cauthen, Steve

31.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

32.

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

33.

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

Trevino, Lee

34.

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

Sayers, Gayle

35.

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

Becker, Boris

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Orpen, Robert

38.

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

39.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

40.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

41.

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

Abbott, Jim

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

45.

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

46.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

47.

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

Riley, Pat

48.

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

Foyt, A. J.

49.

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