Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Sayers, Gayle

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

Hogan, Ben

Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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

Cauthen, Steve

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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

Gladiator's Salute

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

Proverb, Indian

10.

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

Landry, Tom

11.

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

12.

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

Shoemaker, Willie

13.

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

Clough, Arthur Hugh

14.

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

Jipcho, Ben

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Campbell, Earl

21.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

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

Tarkenton, Fran

24.

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

Beecher, Willard

25.

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

Ross, Ruth

26.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

27.

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

Saroyan, William

28.

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

29.

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

Brock, Lou

30.

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.

31.

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

33.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

36.

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

Martin, Jerry

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Foyt, A. J.

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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.

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

Westphal, Paul

48.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

49.

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

Lassiter, Luther

50.

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