Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Lassiter, Luther

Best Quotes about Competition

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Saying

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Italian

6.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

7.

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

Landry, Tom

8.

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

Cauthen, Steve

9.

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

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

Durocher, Leo

11.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

12.

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

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

15.

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

Westphal, Paul

16.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

17.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

18.

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

19.

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

Abbott, Jim

20.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

21.

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

22.

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

Saroyan, William

23.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Ross, Ruth

29.

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

Lamb, Charles

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

33.

Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

34.

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

35.

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

Foyt, A. J.

36.

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

Walsh, Bill

37.

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

38.

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

Geus, Arie de

39.

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

40.

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

Martin, Jerry

41.

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

Orpen, Robert

42.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

43.

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

44.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Burrus, Daniel

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Campbell, Earl

48.

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

Hogan, Ben

49.

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

Oerter, Al

50.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.