Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Westphal, Paul

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Witt, Katarina

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

Leonard, George

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

Lamb, Charles

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Martin, Jerry

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Saying

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

Ovid

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

12.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

Laver, Rod

16.

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

Ross, Ruth

17.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

18.

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

Campbell, Earl

19.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

20.

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

Geus, Arie de

21.

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

22.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Foyt, A. J.

26.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

27.

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

28.

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

Cauthen, Steve

29.

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

30.

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

Becker, Boris

31.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Horne, William Van

33.

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

34.

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

Abbott, Jim

35.

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

36.

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

Gladiator's Salute

37.

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

38.

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

Orpen, Robert

39.

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

40.

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

Durocher, Leo

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

44.

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

Brock, Lou

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

48.

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

49.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

50.

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

Landry, Tom