Quotes About Athletic Competition

#1. Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.

Jackson Katz

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

Keeth Smart

#3. I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Johnny Weissmuller

#4. Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Norah Vincent

#5. Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Dan Gable

#6. Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

Bart Starr

#7. network of tree houses and huts and underground burrows that made up the thriving metropolis in which they lived - all logs and twine and dried mud, everything leaning to the left or the right - did

James Dashner

#8. Every greedy, unreasonable dream I'd ever had about what a woman should be came true in Mona.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

Sirio Maccioni

#11. Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Terence McKenna

#12. If we all counted our blessings and then shared them with our neighbors, near and far, all our lives would be richer.

Janet Autherine

#13. To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.

Wayne Rooney

#14. To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#15. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

#16. I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

Peter Thiel

#17. They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won't arrest you. Well, they might arrest you. There's a good chance they will. But the important thing is that I've done nothing wrong.'
'For once.

Derek Landy