Quotes about competition

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

Horne, William Van on competition   

"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 on competition   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on competition   

"And what is the greatest number? Number one."

Hume, David on competition   

"The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."

Jamieson, Mrs. on competition   

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

Jipcho, Ben on competition   

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

Johnson, Patti on competition   

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

Kennedy, John F. on competition   

"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 on competition   

"You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do."

Kitt, A. J. on competition   

"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one."

Knight, Bobby on competition
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"When the game is over it is really just beginning."

Kramer, Jerry on competition   

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

Lamb, Charles on competition   

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

Landry, Tom on 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 on competition   

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

Laver, Rod on competition   

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

Leonard, George on competition
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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 on competition   

"He can run but he can't hide."

Louis, Joe on competition   

"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 on competition   

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

Martin, Jerry on competition   

"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 on competition   

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

Oerter, Al on competition   

"Playing safe is only playing."

Olson, Chuck on competition   

"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 on competition   

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

Orpen, Robert on competition   

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

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on competition   

"You must play boldly to win."

Palmer, Arnold on competition   

"I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat."

Penick, Harvey on competition   

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

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"After the game the King and pawn go into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on competition   

"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 on competition   

"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 on competition   

"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 on competition   

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

Riley, Pat on competition   

"Win or lose, do it fairly."

Rockne, Knute on competition   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on competition   

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

Ross, Ruth on competition   

"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 on competition