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• Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Forever, Finals

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.39, Penguin

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• The cinema industry is competing against everything else people can do on a Friday or Saturday night. If they don't have a good time, you're going to lose them to something else. So much of what we do is trying to make the Alamo experience special.

  Tim League

  Friday, Night, People

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• If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

  Scott McCloud

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Frustration, Keys

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• It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Views, Waiting

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

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• So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

  Al Oerter

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

  Ayrton Senna

  Believe, Motor Racing, Forget

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• When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

  Erick Erickson

  Smart, Animal, People

  "All-Male Fox Panel Freaks Out About Female Breadwinners". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.

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• Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Should, Feels

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• The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Motivation, War, Party

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• When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Athlete, Winning, Thinking

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• I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Fun, Thinking, Doing What You Love

  "Surfer Girl Makes Comeback After Shark Attack". abcnews.go.com. April 7, 2005.

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• I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Long, Surfing, Know How

  "Riding the storm". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

  Natalia Kills

  Artist, Ideas, People

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• I'm in Cleveland. I enjoy myself. I enjoy going out and competing at highest level for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

  Kyrie Irving

  Cleveland, Going Out, Levels

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• Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

  John Berger

  Messages, Language, Advertising

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• I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Play, Long

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

  Richard Rorty

  Country, Talking, Europe

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Fighting, Differences, Parent

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

  David Frum

  Government, Victim, Left

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• I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

  Annette Bening

  New York, Mean, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

  Anton du Beke

  Zinc, Dancer, Healthy

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• I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, Albums, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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