Competition Quotes

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.

Anatol Rapoport

He can run but he can't hide.

Joe E. Louis

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

Ben Hogan

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Mrs. Jamieson

Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely to whet the appetite for more. When we lose, the compulsion to seek future success is overpowering; the need to get out on the course the following weekend is irresistible. We cannot quit when we are ahead, after we've won, and we certainly cannot quit when we're behind, after we've lost. We are addicted.

Stuart Walker

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

Tom Landry

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

Luther Lassiter

The hardest thing for your competitors to match is the most unique aspect of your organization - the MINDS and HEARTS of your employees

Lee J. Colan, Passionate Perform

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

Rod Laver

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Steve Jobs

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

Ruth Ross

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.

Andre Agassi

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.

Pete Sampras

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Nancy Lopez

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Katarina Witt

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.

William Morris

You cannot do anything wonderful driven by competition; you cannot do anything noble from pride.

Leo Tolstoy

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

David Hume