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"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."
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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."

"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."

"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."

"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."

"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."

"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."

"Of all matches never was the like."

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."

"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."

"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
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"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."

"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."

"I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world."

"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won."

"Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on."

"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."

"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."

"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."
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