Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

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

Landry, Tom

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Campbell, Earl

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

10.

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

Ovid

11.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

12.

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

Foyt, A. J.

13.

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

14.

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

Johnson, Patti

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

17.

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

Jipcho, Ben

18.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

21.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

22.

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.

23.

I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.

Lassiter, Luther

24.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

25.

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

Orpen, Robert

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

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

Saying

28.

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

29.

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

Sayers, Gayle

30.

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

31.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

32.

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

33.

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

Trevino, Lee

34.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

35.

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.

36.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

37.

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

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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

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

Brock, Lou

40.

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

41.

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

Gladiator's Salute

42.

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

43.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

44.

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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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

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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

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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

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

49.

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

50.

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