Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Becker, Boris

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

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

Johnson, Patti

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

Walsh, Bill

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

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.

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

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

Beecher, Willard

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

Saroyan, William

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Foyt, A. J.

12.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Proverb, Italian

14.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

16.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

17.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

18.

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

19.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

20.

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

21.

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

Cauthen, Steve

22.

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

Martin, Jerry

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Berra, Yogi

27.

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

Witt, Katarina

28.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

36.

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

Durocher, Leo

37.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

38.

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

Laver, Rod

39.

He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

40.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

41.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

42.

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

43.

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

Leonard, George

44.

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

45.

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

Saying

46.

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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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.

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Ovid