Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

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

Foyt, A. J.

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

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Leonard, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

11.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

12.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

13.

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

14.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

Westphal, Paul

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Landry, Tom

26.

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

Becker, Boris

27.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

28.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Indian

35.

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

Hoagland, Edward

36.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Jipcho, Ben

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'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

40.

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

Campbell, Earl

41.

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

42.

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

Walsh, Bill

43.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

44.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

45.

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

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Brock, Lou

49.

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

Gladiator's Salute

50.

Most games are lost, not won.