Top 200 Competition Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you make it, great. If you miss it, what’s there to be afraid of?”

— Kobe Bryant

152. “Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.”

— Billie Jean King

153. “There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.”

— Jack Welch

154. “Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.”

— Benjamin Franklin

155. “Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.”

— Vince Lombardi

156. “When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

— Sun Tzu

157. “You are what your record says you are.”

— Bill Parcells

158. “Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.”

— W. Edwards Deming

159. “In case of doubt, attack.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

160. “Differentiate with value or die with price.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

161. “I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.”

— Louise Hay

162. “Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.”

— Shiv Khera

163. “Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.”

— Peter Kropotkin

164. “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

— Steve Young

165. “The cowards never started and the weak died along the way – that leaves us.”

— Phil Knight

166. “Being afraid on the court means you’re not confident of your skills.”

— Michael Jordan

167. “Competition is a sin.”

— John D. Rockefeller

168. “Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.”

— Peter Thiel

169. “You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.”

— Lou Holtz

170. “If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”

— Kobe Bryant

171. “It never gets easier; you just go faster.”

— Greg LeMond

172. “Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.”

— Erik Naggum

173. “Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.”

— Bob Proctor

174. “Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.”

— Chuck Noll

175. “I’m a prideful person when it comes to competition.”

— Ray Lewis

176. “Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.”

— Andrew Harvey

177. “I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty.”

— Muhammad Ali

178. “Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.”

— Eddie Redmayne

179. “In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.”

— Muhammad Ali

180. “I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”

— Roger Waters

181. “The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.”

— Bill Walsh

182. “The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.”

— Carl Sandburg

183. “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?”

— Rumi

184. “Great moments are born from great opportunities.”

— Herb Brooks

185. “There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.”

— Peter Thiel

186. “If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.”

— Pep Guardiola

187. “Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

188. “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”

— Sun Tzu

189. “Don’t steal – the government hates competition!”

— Ron Paul

190. “Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.”

— George Stephenson

191. “I’ve been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don’t go out and just run. There’s an offense and a defense.”

— Steve Prefontaine

192. “Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.”

— Bill Gates

193. “If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.”

— Sōichirō Honda

194. “When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.”

— Les Brown

195. “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.”

— Bill Gates

196. “The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.”

— H. L. Mencken

197. “What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It’s time to hit the road again.”

— Carl Sagan

198. “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

199. “Maybe they hate me because I’m too good!”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

200. “I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.”

— Steve Prefontaine