Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Hoagland, Edward

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

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

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Saying

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.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

10.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

11.

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

Becker, Boris

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lamb, Charles

22.

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

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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

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

Leonard, George

25.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

26.

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

Landry, Tom

27.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

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

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.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

31.

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

Trevino, Lee

32.

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

Walsh, Bill

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ross, Ruth

36.

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

Proverb, Indian

37.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

38.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

39.

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

Hogan, Ben

40.

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

Cauthen, Steve

41.

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

42.

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

Orpen, Robert

43.

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

Sayers, Gayle

44.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

45.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

46.

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

Brock, Lou

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Horne, William Van

50.

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

Shoemaker, Willie