Famous quotes containing the words athletic and/or competition:
“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”
—Douglas Jerrold (1803–1857)
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)