Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Ross, Ruth

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Laver, Rod

2.

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

Lamb, Charles

3.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

7.

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

Gladiator's Salute

8.

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

Ovid

9.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

10.

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

11.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

12.

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

Johnson, Patti

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

17.

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

Hogan, Ben

18.

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

Proverb, Indian

19.

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

Witt, Katarina

20.

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

Jipcho, Ben

21.

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

Ross, Ruth

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

26.

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

27.

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

Saying

28.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

29.

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

30.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

31.

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

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.

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

Oerter, Al

34.

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

35.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

36.

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

Horne, William Van

37.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

38.

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

Westphal, Paul

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.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Saroyan, William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

47.

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

Orpen, Robert

48.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

49.

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

Riley, Pat

50.

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