Historical clue formulations

• Competitive thing to "bring" — 2026-08-03
• Top form — 2026-06-05
• Best effort — 2026-05-27
• Good thing to bring to a competition — 2025-05-20
• Peak performance — 2025-02-14
• Best effort — 2025-02-11
• Best effort — 2023-12-20
• Best competitive stuff — 2023-03-07
• Best effort — 2022-10-01
• Best effort, informally — 2022-08-30
• Good thing to bring to the field — 2021-12-23
• You should always bring it to a competition — 2021-08-22
• Best possible athletic performance — 2021-04-26
• Something an athlete should bring — 2020-05-20
• Good thing for an athlete to bring — 2020-04-11
• Best competitive effort — 2020-03-04
• Best competitive performance, informally — 2019-10-13
• Best effort, informally — 2019-08-05
• Best-effort performance — 2015-07-27
• Peak performance, informally — 2015-04-12
• Best competitive effort, informally — 2011-03-15
• NPR's "Only ___" — 2008-12-12
• "It's only ___" — 2005-05-06
• "Only ___" (NPR program) — 2005-01-08
• "It's only ___!" — 2002-09-15
• "War's ___": Cowper — 1999-04-25
• "It's only ___!" — 1999-01-01
• "This is ___ two can play!" — 1997-06-11