Competition Quotes

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

Proverb

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place

Vince Lombardi

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Janet Guthrie

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg, In The Golfer's Book

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay, Speech, 1832

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Brock, "Christian Science Mo

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.

Kurt Vonnegut

You must play boldly to win.

Arnold Palmer

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

Patti Johnson

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

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

Jerry Martin

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Steve Cauthen

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

William Van Horne

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.

Lou Holtz

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Gil Atkinson

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Jerry Kramer

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith

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

Robert Orben

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Gale Sayers