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Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.”

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Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist and author known for his insightful analysis of social psychology and business. His works explore the psychological mechanisms behind human behavior, decision-making, and success. more

“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than others. But if you don't have a good film and strong characters, then you don't have anything down the road.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Character Film Strong Stuff Storytelling Hopefully Down The Road Good Films Strong Character Good Storytelling

Author:Pete Docter

“In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.”

Ifs World Country Winning Finals Athlete Canada Holiday Championship

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“It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.”

Thinking Sports Differences Strange Enjoyment Arbitrary Elevation

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“I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?”

Should Phones Embarrassing

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“If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.”

Greatness Appreciation Sad Things Doping

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.”

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