Competition Quotes

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Kareem AbdulJabbar

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

Jim Abbott

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Al Oerter

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.

Harvey Penick

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.

Gordie Howe

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

Pat Riley

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

Willie Shoemaker

Playing safe is only playing.

Chuck Olson

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

Bill Walsh

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.

Gary Hamel

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

Arthur H. Clough

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Shaquille O'Neal

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Betty Friedan

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,

Grantland Rice

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Ingemar Stenmark

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.

Bob Richards

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Arthur Ashe

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Arthur Ashe

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

Theodore Roosevelt