“When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.” InspirationalPersonsTwoWinningSportsAbilityPracticePlayerHard WorkVictoryPoliticianEqualLosingCompetitionAssumingCompetitorsHard Work Pays OffPractice Makes Perfect Author:Bill Bradley
“As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.” IfsGivingFeelsYearsRealHappensNightAbilityRegretLosingCompetitionAthleteBotherAthleticReal ThingsHomeworkAssignmentsAthletic Competition Author:Chael Sonnen
“Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.” AbilityLaughingInfluenceCompetitionSense Of HumorGood SenseBondingGood Sense Of Humor Author:Robert Orben
“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.” EarthFormEnergyAbilityTeachUniqueGreenCompetitionPlantSpeciesComplexesPassingPassingsChainsSunlightEcologyCarbonCapturedMoleculesCaloriesFood ChainSolar EnergyGreen Plants Author:Michael Pollan
“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.” WorldChildrenPlayFeelingsSchoolSocialEnjoyAbilityDealsFocusGroupsEmotionalAdultsCompetitionComplexesDisappointmentIntimacyNeighborhoodNew WorldPeersWorkplaceSocial RelationshipsPeer GroupComplex Relationships Author:Stanley Greenspan
“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.” HumansUnderstandingAbilityWorryImpossibleStagePureCompetitionNotionTrackComplicatedComplexityExploitsPhysiologyAccentuateComplexity Of Human Author:Malcolm Gladwell