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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?.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in read more
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.
They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start read more
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it read more
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to read more
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.
