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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
(after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
(after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their read more
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for read more
You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on read more
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)
When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He read more
When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better read more
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.