#pet

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. ↗

— Pete Rose

#always #batting #battling #because #bob

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #cats #dogs #down #equals

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#compete #competing #competition #field #fierce

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#collective #depends #education #instruments #perpetuating

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#himself #peter #peter sellers #reinvented #sellers

Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes. ↗

— Dave Anderson

#deck #dennis #pete #pete rose #rose

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#i #learn #play #quickly #started

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#admit #cats #hate #inquisitive