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If you want to be the person you ought to be, you’ve got to welcome competition.

Bob Richards

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I’d estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it… at least 5 million.
BOB RICHARDS

Men People Years
Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.
BOB RICHARDS

Energy Giving Goal
Strive for perfection – never be content with mediocrity. You don’t win until you conquer the little flaws. You don’t beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life.
BOB RICHARDS

Leadership Sports Winning
You are what you think you are.
BOB RICHARDS

Hamburger Inspirational Thinking
The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth’s economic sphere to the Moon and beyond.
BOB RICHARDS

Creating Home Moon
God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.
BOB RICHARDS

Conquer Everything God Happen
Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.
BOB RICHARDS

Bar Champion Men Trying
If you want to be the person you ought to be, you’ve got to welcome competition.
BOB RICHARDS

Competition Want Welcome
A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person’s life. Don’t be content with mediocrity – strive to live up to the greatest within you.
BOB RICHARDS

Business Mediocrity Person Strive
Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.
BOB RICHARDS

Civilization Creating Economy Humanity
One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
BOB RICHARDS

Athlete Life Lesson Motivational

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