Competitions Quotes
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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Professional competitions are overrated.
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I wouldn't say that I always wear this particular shirt, but I do ALWAYS bring it with me to trips and competitions.
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Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.
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Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
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Competitions, our preparation, our time and our focus are much different than most people.
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I am of the firm view that there is no impediment to me competing in athletics competitions.
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I don’t think there’s a real passion for these kind of events. I always ask why we should change a system of strong international competitions… if it’s not broken, why try to fix it? It’s like building castles in the sky.
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Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.
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I think that these were the best competitions, higher than Olympics.
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In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.
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When my coach and team-mates went abroad for competitions, I had to lay on the bed alone, so I felt extremely upset and even thought of retiring. But leaving the platform like that was not the result that I wanted, so I did not give up.
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I think that a huge positive that's come out of me having successful competitions as an athlete has been that, through the years it's become less and less about personal victory and more about strengthening a platform for me to have a voice in the world and I could really talk about anything I wanted to and I've chosen to make my voice be heard and be recognized for some of the charities that I really care about and work very closely with.
