#competed

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. ↗

— John Irving

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I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#career #competed #empty #i #lot

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#compared #competed #does #doom #had

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

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I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

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