Motivational Quotes

Competition

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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 the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Westphal, Paul

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Shoemaker, Willie

10.

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

11.

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

Durocher, Leo

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

15.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

16.

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

Witt, Katarina

17.

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

Martin, Jerry

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

20.

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

21.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

22.

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

Trevino, Lee

23.

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

Hoagland, Edward

24.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

25.

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

26.

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

Abbott, Jim

27.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Leonard, George

29.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

30.

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

Lassiter, Luther

31.

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

Orpen, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Walsh, Bill

35.

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

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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

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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

38.

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

Landry, Tom

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Cauthen, Steve

41.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Laver, Rod

44.

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

Horne, William Van

45.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Jipcho, Ben

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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

48.

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

Gladiator's Salute

49.

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

50.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey