Quotes About Competitive Parents

#1. I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

Dean Koontz

#2. We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.

Cesar Millan

#3. I only weigh 98 pounds. The rest of this is liver.

Mimi Imfurst

#4. I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

Daniel Handler

#5. To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

#6. The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

Nachman Of Breslov

#7. Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

Michael Sandel

#8. Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

#9. Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

Cesc Fabregas

#10. Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

Michael Bierut

#11. I made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.

Shel Silverstein

#12. Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Eric Clapton

#13. Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Honore

#14. Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Simon Van Booy

#15. When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.

Joni Mitchell

#16. I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

Ira Glass

#17. Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

James Dobson

#18. There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.

Gagan Narang

#19. Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Voltaire

#20. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Janet Jackson

#21. I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

Zendaya