It'd be better if he were easier to hate.
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
First do it, then say it.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.