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• I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Hard Work, Thinking

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• I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

  Ann Richards

  Mother, Nurse, Expectations

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• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  Mickey Rourke

  Choices, Acting, Down And

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• I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Funny, Life

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• It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Long, Realizing

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• Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Race, Age, Income

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• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  Marat Safin

  Guy, Other Guys

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• I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

  Jill Scott

  Men, Order, Trying

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• To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Bad Day, Challenges

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• I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

  Hope Solo

  Fighter, Strive, Solo

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• No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Literature, Humans

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.64, Penguin

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• Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

  David Suzuki

  People, Bags, Incentives

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• If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Believe, Player

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• In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

  Daley Thompson

  Motivation, Heart, Thinking

  Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Luck, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Albums, Want

  "Lil Wayne Says He Turned To Rock Because He Got 'Tired' Of Rapping" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. April 01, 2009.

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• I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Men, God Fearing Man

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• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  Venus Williams

  Friends, Sports, Party

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• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

  E. O. Wilson

  Hard Times, Goal, Giving

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• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

  William Julius Wilson

  Perseverance, Creativity, Character

  Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996.

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• All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

  Tiger Woods

  Beautiful, Dad, Father

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• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Thinking, Stylist

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• Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Scary, Might

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• The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.97, Bantam

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