Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

2.

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

Saroyan, William

3.

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

Jipcho, Ben

4.

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

5.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

9.

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

10.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

11.

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

12.

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

Hoagland, Edward

13.

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

Landry, Tom

14.

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

Oerter, Al

15.

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

Proverb, Italian

16.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

17.

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

Brock, Lou

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

19.

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

Foyt, A. J.

20.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

21.

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

22.

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

Westphal, Paul

23.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

24.

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

Leonard, George

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

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

Becker, Boris

27.

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

Orpen, Robert

28.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

29.

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

Horne, William Van

30.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

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

32.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

33.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

34.

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

35.

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

Hogan, Ben

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Gladiator's Salute

39.

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

40.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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

Ovid

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Witt, Katarina

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

49.

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

Trevino, Lee

50.

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