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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.
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?.
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.
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind read more
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
The only one who can beat me is me.
The only one who can beat me is me.
They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)
They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for read more
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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.
