If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
“If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.”
— Ben Askren · Competing
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If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
“If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.”
— Ben Askren · Competing
If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.
I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.
The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I've gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.
When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.
We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
I just love sport; I love competing. I'm obsessed by it, to be honest. I can accept losing, sure, no question, but it just drives me crazy. Just ask my wife.
One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.
The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.
I'm used to playing for a high level team that expects to win, to be competing at this level.