Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. Christopher McDougall
I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going. Ryan Sheckler
I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression. Dean Karnazes
I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood. Ryan Lochte
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. Ree Drummond
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. Steven Brust
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. Tammy Bruce
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Epictetus Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/epictetus_3.html#fXoF7ffcwHGdRTZY.99 Epictetus