“ I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. Maria Sharapova
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein