“The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.” WayRunningEnergySportsRaceManagementPreparedTrackBlowDebtCompetitorsOxygenMarathonStrategic Author:Frank Shorter
“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.” KidsSportsBlowReactionsChosenMy SisterMouldPlasters Author:J. J. Abrams
“To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.” ThinkingMayStillsTwoBigsSportsBehindsMillionsThousandSafeShotsRedRiversTownsSafetyMadSouthSoldierBlowMilesPassingPassingsInsaneBoatSecureConvinceMarchHelplessBulletsFamily And FriendsFloatsMississippiParrotsNavigationMississippi RiverGood SportsSteamboats Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.” HardSportsMinesMoonBlowEngineersYardsGo Hard Author:William Shakespeare