Quotes About Not Winning A Competition

#1. Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

Criss Jami

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.

Learned Hand

#5. Ultra competitive people who always need to win end up enjoying things less.

David Niven

#6. A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

Brian Herbert

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I actually think that many of the musicians who have something meaningful to say don't win competitions. An incredible pianist like Horowitz had so much to say, but he might not win anything in competition because of his wrong notes.

Charlie Albright

#10. There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

William Glasser

#11. Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.
(on the Champions League)

Steven Gerrard

#12. There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

Anton Du Beke

#13. 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

#14. It was pretty clear who was winning this battle. Even though it wasn't a competition. But part of me felt like it was. Which one of us could survive without the other?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#15. I never go easy on kids when I play board games. The sooner they learn what the consequence of entering a competition is, the better. If they win, I punch them in the face like any adult.

Zach Braff

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

Karch Kiraly

#17. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

Criss Jami

#18. Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Carlos Slim

#19. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Gautama Buddha

#20. 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

#21. Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Seth Godin

#22. 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

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

Michael Novak

#24. 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

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

Darynda Jones

#26. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

#27. Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

Walter E. Williams

#28. 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

#29. Competition is my life; winning is my only goal

Daley Thompson

#30. Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Charles Handy

#31. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#32. Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

Randy West

#33. If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

Mark Victor Hansen

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

Lee Child

#35. Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

Charles Tillman

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Be careful ... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

Jackson Katz