Top 200 Competition Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No competition, no progress.”

— Bela Karolyi

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Good Morning Motivational Quotes, Progress Quotes, Gym Quotes

2. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Empowering Quotes

3. “People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Sports Quotes

4. “Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Making Money Quotes, Small Business Quotes

5. “I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I’ve met, and I think that I thrive on that.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Greatness Quotes, Sports Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

6. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes

7. “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Strategy Quotes, Performance Quotes

8. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

9. “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Winning Quotes, Warrior Quotes

10. “I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.”

— Conor McGregor

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Performance Quotes, Fighting Quotes

11. “I’m chasing perfection.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Practice Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

12. “Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Winning Quotes, Victory Quotes

13. “Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.”

— Billie Jean King

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Victory Quotes

14. “Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.”

— Michael Porter

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes

15. “Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s OK to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.”

— Magnus Carlsen

Also featured in: Chess Quotes

16. “Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.”

— Michael Porter

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes

17. “If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Creative Quotes, Innovation Quotes

18. “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes

19. “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Fighting Quotes

20. “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success, Efficiency Quotes

21. “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Athlete Quotes

22. “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Victory Quotes

23. “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

— Patrick Lencioni

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Collaboration Quotes

24. “If you practice hard, you can win every battle.”

— Manny Pacquiao

Also featured in: Friday Motivational Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes

25. “Your margin is my opportunity.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Making Money Quotes

26. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

— Jimmy Johnson

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Productivity Quotes

27. “Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.”

— Nastia Liukin

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

28. “Champions are brilliant at the basics.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes

29. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”

— Roy L. Smith

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Smart Quotes

30. “Do what others refuse to do.”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Wealth Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

31. “I didn’t come here to be average.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

32. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

33. “It’s just a game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. ”

— Manny Pacquiao

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes

34. “Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.”

— Alex Ferguson

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Determination Quotes, Football Quotes

35. “Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it. Most people don’t understand that.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quotes About Work

36. “Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Business Quotes

37. “Only the paranoid survive.”

— Andy Grove

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Strategy Quotes, IT Quotes

38. “You adapt, evolve, compete or die.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Survival Quotes

39. “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Basketball Quotes, Football Quotes

40. “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

41. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Winning Quotes, Victory Quotes

42. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Performance Quotes, Preparation Quotes

43. “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Fighting Quotes

44. “A runner doesn’t just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Practice Quotes, Fitness Quotes

45. “All I knew was that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Personality Quotes, Greatness Quotes

46. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”

— Terrell Owens

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Victory Quotes, Football Quotes

47. “There are two options: adapt or die.”

— Andy Grove

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Survival Quotes

48. “It’s not the big that eats the small – it’s the fast that eats the slow.”

— Jason Jennings

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Business Quotes

49. “Greatness is earned, not given.”

— J. J. Watt

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes, Football Quotes

50. “Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.”

— Alex Ferguson

Also featured in: Football Quotes