Motivational Quotes

Competition

Most games are lost, not won.

- Stengel, Casey

Best Quotes about Competition

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Westphal, Paul

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

10.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

11.

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

Ross, Ruth

12.

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

Laver, Rod

13.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

14.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

15.

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

16.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

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

Johnson, Patti

21.

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

Jipcho, Ben

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Indian

24.

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

Saroyan, William

25.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

30.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

31.

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

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

Sayers, Gayle

33.

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

Martin, Jerry

34.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

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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

42.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

44.

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

Landry, Tom

45.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

46.

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

Hogan, Ben

47.

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

Hoagland, Edward

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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'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

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

Horne, William Van