Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.
The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.
When I started playing all the players were trying to sell the game of snooker. Nowadays the prize money is so great, competing in tournaments is no laughing matter.
If you are the president of the United States of America, you are 70 years of age, and you are tweeting - literally competing with 15- and 17-year-olds - that is a problem.
There are 16 year olds competing at the olympics and i still push on pull doors & struggle getting through the whole day without a nap.
There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
I am usually wearing some sort of see-through when I am competing.
Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.
When I started competing, you had to have your coach there. Now you can be coached from a home office via Skype or video. That's not the same as having them on the field with you.
It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.
I'm used to playing for a high level team that expects to win, to be competing at this level.
Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on 'Strictly' has changed my life.
Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.
When I was doing 'Deep Space Nine' the only other competing shows were 'Babylon Five' and I think 'Stargate' not too long after that.
Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.
Competing is something that once I retire from, it's not something I can go back and do.
I really don't know how athletes manage to do it, having kids while they're still competing and being able to stay at the top of their game.
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.
There are parts of the game you always miss. I have missed the competitive spirit, competing against the opposition. But I have really enjoyed time away from cricket.
I guess I feel that competing well and signing all the autographs and just being available to the fans every weekend is the way I can best promote the sport.
It's so refreshing when I walk in and see a bunch of Asian actresses all competing for the same role because it makes me feel like I have a genuine shot.
I think watching multi-events is much worse than competing. Especially when you have vested interests because you go through the emotional ups and downs.
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.
Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don't dwell on it when you are competing but there are lots of moments when you are close to serious accidents.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
I don't like the idea of a reality show. It makes me like a student in school who is competing in a competition.
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
I love being on the field. I love competing. But I'm not a fan of everything that comes with it.
The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.
I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.
When I was competing, I cut out red meat but only because I felt it took too long to digest, so I stuck to chicken and fish.
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
What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.
I want to win at everything I'm doing. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to beat the person that I'm competing against.
Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.
There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
I didn't even think that I could be competing for a gold medal; I was convinced I'd compete for a silver medal.
When actors are vying for the same kinds of roles, there's bound to be a little rivalry. Deep friendships cannot be forged when you are competing with each other.
Evolutionary science kind of bears that out: When species are rivals and competing for space and resources, the superior one wins. Nature has no compunction about that; it just is.
Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It's passion. There's no passion in hurting people.
When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
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