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.

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part read more

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and read more

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. rn

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

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.

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And read more

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

World records are only borrowed.

World records are only borrowed.