Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

Tarkenton, Fran

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

Abbott, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Landry, Tom

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

12.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

13.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

15.

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

Hoagland, Edward

16.

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

Lamb, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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.

21.

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

Beecher, Willard

22.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

23.

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

Martin, Jerry

24.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

25.

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

26.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

27.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

28.

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

Campbell, Earl

29.

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

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

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

Hogan, Ben

32.

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

33.

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

Sayers, Gayle

34.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Patti

38.

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

Proverb, Indian

39.

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

Saying

40.

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

41.

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

Gladiator's Salute

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Becker, Boris

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Walsh, Bill