Competition Quotes

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

Willard Beecher

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Marguerite Beecher

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Boris Becker

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Walter Wriston

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

A. J. Foyt

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

A. J. Kitt

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of American students have learned to critique tactfully?

Barbara J. Alexander

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Leo Durocher

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Tom Landry

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Lee Trevino

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.

Patty Sheehan

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

Ovid

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bill Bradley

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.

Nigel Mansell

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Elbert Hubbard

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb