"Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart."

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Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

David Boudia

#Selfish Quotes #Heart Quotes #Competition Quotes

“What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Honestly, I don't want to worry about the trivial feelings here. I have nothing and I still have a far way to go. There's no time for me to hesitate. The people around me force me to hesitate.”
“Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.”
“If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself”
“Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”
“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.”
“How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?”

Source : Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.55, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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