#pet

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#competition #compression #day #first #help

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #bring #competition #definitely #does

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. ↗

— Seth Godin

#competition #find #invent #method #new

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#conquered #dears #human #human nature #nature

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there. ↗

— Peter Forsberg

#every #everybody #five #great #group

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#favorite #favorite film #film #flies #i

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#compete #copying #either #handicapped #handicaps

Kittens can happen to anyone. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#anyone #happen #kittens

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. ↗

— George Galloway

#flags #fooling #means #patriotism #people