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?.
You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the read more
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every read more
Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
Those who complain how the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
I am the most loyal player money can buy.
(Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, read more
I am the most loyal player money can buy.
(Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)
Raise the urinals.
(on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)
Raise the urinals.
(on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that read more
I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast.
Tom.
(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)
Tom.
(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)
