Competition Quotes

61 quotations about Competition
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
Ben Jipcho · Competition
Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.
Patti Johnson · Competition
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
John F. Kennedy · Competition
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A. J. Kitt · Competition
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Bobby Knight · Competition
When the game is over it is really just beginning.
Jerry Kramer · Competition
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb · Competition
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry · Competition
I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
Luther Lassiter · Competition
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.
Rod Laver · Competition
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
George Leonard · Competition
He can run but he can't hide.
Joe Louis · Competition
When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Jerry Martin · Competition
I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Al Oerter · Competition
Playing safe is only playing.
Chuck Olson · Competition
These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
Robert Orpen · Competition
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid · Competition
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige · Competition
You must play boldly to win.
Arnold Palmer · Competition
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb · Competition
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
Pat Riley · Competition
Win or lose, do it fairly.
Knute Rockne · Competition
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
Theodore Roosevelt · Competition
In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
Ruth Ross · Competition
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
William Saroyan · Competition

Authors on Competition

Jim Abbott Greg Anderson Bela Bartok Boris Becker Willard Beecher Yogi Berra Napoleon Bonaparte Bill Bradley Lou Brock Daniel Burrus Earl Campbell Steve Cauthen Wilt Chamberlain Arthur Hugh Clough Leo Durocher A. J. Foyt Arie de Geus Gladiator's Salute Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Janet Guthrie