That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.
When the game is over, it is really just beginning.
Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.
Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.
My whole life has been one of seeking experience.
Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.
Old #64 chose. . . a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.