No competition, no progress.
-- Béla Károlyi
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Competition requires adjustments. If we don't adjust to changing conditions, we get left behind, or we fail to advance, or we lose more than just a contest, or it costs us too much in the long run. It's one reason economic monopolies are disliked by consumers and discouraged by nations where free market systems are encouraged.
Competition forces us to analyze what we do. This analysis makes us question our decisions and our methods to determine what works and what doesn't. We stay with what works for us, we discard what doesn't work for us, and we find alternate methods with the expectation that they will work for us.
Even if we're not the leaders or in first place, competition forces us to maintain a certain level of performance. Lack of competition keeps us in place, and frozen in time.
Some (More) Information about Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi was born in Cluj, Romania on 1942-September-13.
Béla Károlyi is best known as the gymnastics coach for not one but two Olympic Gold Medal-winning programs on both sides of the Cold War: from the Communist Bloc, Romania; from "The West," the United States. Among his Olympic Gold Medal winning gymnasts were Nadia Comăneci (ROM), Mary Lou Retton (USA), and Kerri Strug (USA). It was during the early phase of his career as a gymnastics coach that he revolutionized women's gymnastics.
From his early youth, Károlyi had been oriented toward athletics. As a teenager he was not only track and frield athlete but also a boxer. In track and field, Károlyi set national records for the hammer throw. In boxing, he won the National Boxing Championship.
In 1959, after he won the National Boxing Championship, he quit his job at a local slaughterhouse and enrolled at Cluj Technical College. At CTC he played on the rugby team as well as the world championship-winning handball team. It was also while studying at CTC that Károlyi met his future wife and coaching partner, Marta Eross.
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