Girls Competing Quotes

#1. I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.

Aly Raisman

#2. Only a poet can translate for the dead.

Marty Rubin

#3. The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

Edan Lepucki

#4. In football I enjoyed competing and wanted to be the best. That was also part of it. There were quite a few factors. I loved the game, it was a great way to socialize and I liked playing against girls because it meant competing on a level playing field.

Hope Powell

#5. The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Zhang Ziyi

#6. Dream about things that envelop your being like a comfortable blanket.

Truth Devour

#7. Okay, and what do I get out of this?" He shrugs and looks almost apologetic. "Me," he says simply.

E.L. James

#8. I learned how to play football and I got pretty good at it. I enjoyed being on a team with other girls. In Hollywood, girls are always competing against one another, so it was nice to be on a team with other girls for a change.

Nikki Ziering

#9. I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

Hilarie Burton

#10. If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

Mark McCormack

#11. [ ... ] certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

Charles Dickens

#12. I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

Brad Schneider

#13. Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.

Michael Donaghy

#14. She was immune. She was important.

Marissa Meyer

#15. The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Samuel Johnson

#16. The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.

Riaad Moosa

#17. She studied him for a few more seconds. "You
look too pretty to be useful."
I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and
shook her hand.
"Truer words were never spoken," he said.

Richelle Mead

#18. This was exactly why they'd failed: never being satisfied with what a person had to give, always expecting so much sacrifice that you had to hate yourself for anything less.

Sonya Huber

#19. When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Frances O'Grady

#20. Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

Dominika Cibulkova