Motivational Quotes

Competition

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Johnson, Patti

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Riley, Pat

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Lassiter, Luther

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Becker, Boris

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

15.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

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.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

20.

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

Trevino, Lee

21.

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

22.

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

Horne, William Van

23.

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

Ross, Ruth

24.

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

Jipcho, Ben

25.

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

26.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

27.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Willard

31.

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

Campbell, Earl

32.

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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

35.

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

Leonard, George

36.

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

Proverb, Italian

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Landry, Tom

41.

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

Sayers, Gayle

42.

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

43.

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

Walsh, Bill

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

49.

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

Geus, Arie de

50.

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