Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Sayers, Gayle

Best Quotes about Competition

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Ovid

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

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

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

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

Horne, William Van

10.

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

11.

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

12.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

13.

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

Laver, Rod

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

16.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

17.

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

Trevino, Lee

18.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

19.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

20.

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

Saroyan, William

21.

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

Hoagland, Edward

22.

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

23.

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

Landry, Tom

24.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

25.

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

Westphal, Paul

26.

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

27.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

28.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

29.

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

Foyt, A. J.

30.

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

31.

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

Witt, Katarina

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.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

37.

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

Berra, Yogi

38.

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

39.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

40.

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.

41.

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

Jipcho, Ben

42.

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

Lamb, Charles

43.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Gladiator's Salute

45.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Leonard, George

48.

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

Orpen, Robert

49.

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

50.

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

Cauthen, Steve