#petition

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing. ↗

— Lou Brock

#competition #goals #i #keeps #me

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#country #face #feeling #hope #i

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition. ↗

— Keeth Smart

#athletic #being #biggest #business #competition

[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs! ↗

— A.G. Starling

#contemporary-romance #funny #game #lizzie-bennet #love

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must mean the defeat of the other. No one can measure how much personal unhappiness and inner cowardice have come from this immaturity of our social outlook, this childlike comparison, this absurd rivalry in every area of life. As our democracy becomes more mature, men have a chance of growing up and of realizing that every person is needed and has some contribution to make. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#life

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied. ↗

— A.G. Starling

#competition #contemporary-romance #game #love #sexy

The best part about teamwork, is me collecting all the prize money. Hey, that’s what captains are for, right?
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— Jarod Kintz

#collecting #competition #prize-money #team #team-captain

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#begin #belief #conviction #deep #deep conviction

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man