George Leonard Quotes

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

George Leonard

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• Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Need

• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Sick
  • Name

• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Know
  • Fashion

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sports

• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Money
  • Sports
  • motivation

• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Good
  • Help
  • Crazy

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Competition
  • Senior
  • Citizen

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Moving
  • Democracy
  • Competition

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fashion
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Surprise

• I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Competition
  • Everyday

• Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • War

• The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Celebrity
  • Consciousness

• We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Important

• Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • School

• Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

  

  George Leonard
  • Sports
  • Competition
  • Sick