Quotes About Competition And Winning

#1. For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.

Conrad Veidt

#2. My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.

Douglass North

#4. Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished opportunities to prove himself, physically and mentally.

James Wallace

#5. Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

Karch Kiraly

#6. I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.

Martina Hingis

#7. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Parker J. Palmer

#8. Collaboration always wins over competition ... and is more fun, too.

Silvio Micali

#9. He who have less knowledge of what competition is about, will least have the knowledge as to how to win a competition.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#11. There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

Maureen Connolly

#12. I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

Evgeni Plushenko

#13. You don't have to be successful on a grand scale like winning a talent competition or writing a New York Times bestseller - if you have enough small things that you can be successful at then eventually they outshine all your failures.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#14. An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

Bipasha Basu

#15. Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

Beah Richards

#16. If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

Charlie Albright

#17. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Michael Novak

#18. Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

Kilian Jornet

#19. Everyone may want to be famous, everyone doesn't want to be patient. Fewest cross the bridge, fewer fall down the ladder and few get tired climbing the stairs. It's not about being famous then, it's winning a meaningless competition

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#20. Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

C. Wright Mills

#21. In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.

Carroll Smith

#22. State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.

Arjuna Mahendran

#23. We know that Barca is playing at a high level and has a great possibility to win the competition, but I hope they do not have the luck of winning the title

Gonzalo Higuain

#24. When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

Sun Tzu

#25. We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Joe Paterno

#26. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Chris Cleave

#27. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Erica Sehyun Song

#28. Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

Lanny Bassham

#29. We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.

Lee Child

#30. And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Neale Donald Walsch

#31. If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Darynda Jones

#32. 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