Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

Geus, Arie de

2.

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

Riley, Pat

3.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

4.

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

Lamb, Charles

5.

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

Westphal, Paul

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Becker, Boris

9.

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

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

11.

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

12.

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

Hogan, Ben

13.

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

14.

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

Sayers, Gayle

15.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

16.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

17.

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

19.

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

Horne, William Van

20.

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.

21.

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

Martin, Jerry

22.

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

Landry, Tom

23.

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

Witt, Katarina

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Ovid

27.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

28.

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

29.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

30.

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

Johnson, Patti

31.

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

32.

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

Cauthen, Steve

33.

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

34.

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

Walsh, Bill

35.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

36.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

37.

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

38.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

39.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

40.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

41.

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

Beecher, Willard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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

Abbott, Jim

47.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

48.

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

Durocher, Leo

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.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt