#pet

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#competition #counts #equal #go #out

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#competition #could #demanded #get #higher

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know? ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#competition #different #different ages #kind #know

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#does #interfere #love #mine #never

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete. ↗

— Donald Trump

#almost #because #china #companies #compete

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#cameras #carpet #different #down #felt

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#asked #competition #dad #first #friend

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#be happy #beyond #commencement #everything #fine

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence