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

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

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

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

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

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

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.
~ Vicky Aragon

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

Competitions are for horse, not artist.
~ Bela Bartok

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

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
~ Marguerite Beecher

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

The game isn't over until it's over.
~ Yogi Berra

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
~ Bill Bradley

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
~ Lou Brock

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

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

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

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
~ Andrew Carnegie