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"Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition."
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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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"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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"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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"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."
Music
"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."
Fight
"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."
Idea
"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
Democracy
"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."
Time
"I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play."
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"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music."
Music
"Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk."
Act
"The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves."
People
"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."
Progress
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