Top 101 Competition Quotes

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Competition is an integral part of life. With that in mind, check out the top 101 competition quotes.

#101 – 90. Competition Quotes

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

100. When you have fun, it changes all the pressure into pleasure. – Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr.

99. All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don’t play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. – Bill Parcels

98. Don’t knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition. – Jacob Kindleberger

97. After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb

96. A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. – James Cash Penney

95. I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them. – Tommy Hilfiger

94. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. – Rabindranath Tagore

93. The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. – Mia Hamm

92. The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead. Never let up. – Rod Laver

91. Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. – Herbert Hoover

90. Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

#89 – 80. Competition Quotes

89. I don’t psyche myself up, I psyche myself down, I think clearer when I’m not psyched up. – Steve Cauthen

88. Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. – Ray Knight

87. When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk, he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. – William Hazlitt

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

85. When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

84. There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi

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

82. 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

81. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not taking risks, and that means you’re not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win. – John W. Holt, Jr.

80. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

#79 – 70. Competition Quotes

79. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. – Marcus Garvey

78. There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. – Elie Wiesel

77. You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life. – John Addison

76. For me, losing a tennis match isn’t failure, it’s research. – Billie Jean King

75. Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. – Coach Paul Bear Bryant

74. Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t. – Malcolm X

73. 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

72. Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates

71. Winning isn’t getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself. – Roger Staubach

70. Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe. – Jack Nicklaus

#69 – 60. Competition Quotes

69. Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. – Wilt Chamberlain

68. Mastery of thought and emotion is the key to all winning! – George Zalucki

67. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself. – Dan Jansen

66. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. – Walt Disney

65. Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. – William Saroyan

64. I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance. – Celine Dion

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

62. You must do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you. – Joe Falcon

61. If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. – Barbara Cook

60. As soon as I hear the word ‘competition’ I get serious and start doing everything that I can do. – Maureen McCormick

#59 – 50. Competition Quotes

59. Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still. – Chuck Knox

58. Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. – Nancy Pearcey

57. Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. – Bill Bradley

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

55. Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you’re part of an industry. – Robert Scoble

54. Number one, cash is king, number two, communicate, number three, buy or bury the competition. – Jack Welch

53. Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors. – Sam Altman

52. World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today. – Eric Allison

51. Without the spur of competition we’d loaf out our life. – Arnold Glasow

50. 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

#49 – 40. Competition Quotes

49. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. – Shannon L. Alder

48. I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated. – Emmitt Smith

47. 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

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

45. It’s good to have high-quality competition; it helps drive research forward at a faster pace. – Shuji Nakamura

44. Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

43. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius

42. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden

41. The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. – Howard Cosell

40. Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. – Daniel Burrus

#39 – 30. Competition Quotes

39. 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

38. When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. – Joe Montana

37. The Law of Win/Win says, Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way. – Greg Anderson

36. I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

35. You’ve got to keep reinventing. You’ll have new competitors. You’ll have new customers all around you. – Ginni Rometty

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

33. Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. – Toba Beta

32. No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. – Bonnie Blair

31. You are never a loser until you quit trying. – Mike Ditka

30. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. – A. J. Kitt

#29 – 20. Competition Quotes

29. There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can’t destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them. – George Matthew Adams

28. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose. – Ashley Hodgeson

27. Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. – Earl Campbell

26. Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracian

25. Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. – Willard Beecher

24. As humans, we have evolved to compete; it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. – Peter Diamandis

23. Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift. – Chris Evert

22. 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 Abdul-Jabbar

21. The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there; if you don’t acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice. – Jake Gyllenhaal

20. 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

#19 – 10. Competition Quotes

19. Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit. – Michael Josephson

18. When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose. – Michael Josephson

17. Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. – David Sarnoff

16. You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. – Michael Jordan

15. Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing. – Phil Jackson

14. It’s all about the journey, not the outcome. – Carl Lewis

13. Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. – Nido Qubein

12. Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

11. The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. – Arie de Geus

10. Competitions are for horse, not artist. – Bela Bartok

#9 – 1. Competition Quotes

9. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

8. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. – Martina Navratilova

7. Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. – Marsha Sinetar

6. The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. – Washington Allston

5. Winning isn’t always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing. – Manuel Diotte

4. Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick. – George Leonard

3. If you win through bad sportsmanship, that’s no real victory. – Babe Zaharias

2. Taste the relish to be found in competition in having put forth the best within you. – Henry Kaiser

1. I think it’s the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. – John McEnroe

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