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"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."
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"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
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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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"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."
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"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
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"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
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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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"At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."
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"I think we all have had better days in competition."
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"Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts."
Life
"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."
Competition
"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."
Nation
"So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it."
Athletes
"I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth."
People
"To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different."
Life
"We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on."
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