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"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"

"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."

"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."

"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."

"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."

"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."

"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."

"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
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"I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight."

"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."

"I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong."

"So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age."

"Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks."

"The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy."
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