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"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
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"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."
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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
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"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
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"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants."
Being
"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
Competition
"Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions."
Decision-Making
"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this."
Decision-Making
"No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different."
Tennis
"When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration."
Focus
"I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is."
Love
"Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court."
Tennis
"My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played."
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