#Competition Quotes

“There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.”

“The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.”

“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”

“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”

“It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”

“Love is co-operation rather than competition.”

“I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'”

“My heart laments that virtue cannot liveOut of the teeth of emulation.”

“For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .”

“The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.”

“I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.”

“You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.”

“What care though rival cities soarAlong the stormy coast,Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,If Boston knew the most!”

“What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.”

“The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.”

“Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”

“What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?”

“The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.”

“If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.”

“Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don't go only on the basis of if they are injured.”

“If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.”

“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.”

“The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.”

“It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.”

“I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.”

“It's easier to lose than to win.”

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.”

“He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.”

“O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.”

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

“Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”

“[Football is] a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.”

“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn't mean a thing. That's for the fans. You've got to win the war with the man in front of you. You've got to get your man.”

“The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.”

“If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.”

“Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.”

“Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.”

“Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.”

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

“We run to win, not just to be in the race.”

“It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.”

“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”

“I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.”

“A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.”

“If you're not first, you're last.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”