Quotes about "Sports & Competition"

I knew the HIV virus was something anyone could get but also believed the chances were very slim... I honestly believed I had a better chance of winning the lottery than contracting this disease. I have never been so wrong in my life. ”

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. ”

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ”

Winning the Brit award - I really didn't expect to win, and I was just there for the party, but then I actually won it! I'll never forget that moment and the weeks leading up to it. ”

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. ”

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning. ”

Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. ”

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. ”

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. ”

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America. ”