We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against…

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and…

— Arnold Palmer

As an actor, I look to play roles that challenge me and this did that. I asked to speak to [the victim's sister] Kathleen…

— Mark Harmon

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim,…

— Prentice Mulford

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

— Elgin Baylor

You have to be sharp, you have to be ready. You have to have guys that can push you in terms of these high-level…

— Derek Brunson

If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take…

— Venus Williams

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

— Bud Wilkinson

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

— Spencer W. Kimball

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

— Charlie Trotter

With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead…

— Frederick Lenz

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

— Seth Godin

Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what…

— Frederick Lenz

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

— Robert Farrar Capon