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Quotes About Competition

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
~ Grantland Rice
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
~ Ovid
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
~ Tom Landry
You will go one on one with the Great One!
~ Dwayne Johnson
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
~ Damon Hill
I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong.
~ Steve Reeves
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.
~ Steven Gerrard
Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.
~ Ayrton Senna
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
~ William Feather
It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.
~ Jonathan Horton
Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win
~ Vinnie Jones
If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.
~ Pete Rose
Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
~ Junior Seau
I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
~ Dennis Rodman
Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level.
~ Julie Foudy
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
~ Edward de Bono
I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
~ Amanda Beard
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
~ Edward de Bono
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.
~ Sam Mussabini
No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.
~ Danny Harris
If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.
~ Steven Gerrard
Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.
~ Marianne Limpert