“The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentLightUsedSportsInterestingFieldsThis WorldChangedCallingHundredIncrediblesAthleteEvolveTimingOlympicsChampionshipRefereeFencing Author:Mariel Zagunis
“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.” ThinkingWorldFirstsLooksMadeSeemsLastsThreeNextSportsRaceHalfPositionBearsTenHappeningsHundredGainsEternityDown AndFinalsAthleteNineBlockLook UpSecondsYardsStrideSprinters Book:I Have Changed Source: I Have Changed
“Tendulkar can now rightly lay claim to the title of being the greatest batsman in cricket history. And if some people argue about his greatness then there are certainly no arguments about his being the most prolific, he is a complete run machine and his 50th Test hundred is a testimony of his endurance and passion for the sport” PeopleIfsRunningPassionSportsGreatnessHundredArgumentTestsMachinesClaimsLaysArguingTitlesEnduranceCricketTestimonyTendulkar Author:Rashid Latif
“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.” MenChildrenBookDifferentHelpingHomeLyingSportsHoursNaturalRaceCompanyWifeStreetsMinesWallTasteThousandHundredHorseDollarsLibraryMy WifeEvery ManMy ChildrenInclinationDisadvantagesDifferent DirectionsYachtSociable Author:Jay Gould
“Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.” PeopleMenEndsSportsBornOpinionCenturyHuman NatureHundredFellowsBoundsEnvyCompetitorsRivalsPillars Author:Aristotle
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.” KnowsInspirationalMindMotivationalWinningSportsEnjoyLosesSleepEffortPercentHundredCompetitionAthleteMotivational SportsPeace Of MindHockeyInspirational SportsAthleticWinning And LosingWin Or LoseMotivational Inspirational SportsGreat SportsAthlete MotivationalWill To WinBest SportsShort SportsShort Inspirational SportsGreatest SportsShort Motivational SportsBest AthleteAwesome SportsInspirational AthleteEnjoy YourselfGreat AthleteGreat Inspirational SportsGreat Motivational SportsGreatest AthleteAthletic MotivationalInspiring AthleteAthletic InspirationalWinning LosingInspirational WinningFunny Inspirational SportsGreat HockeyTeam MotivationalGive 100 PercentTeam MotivationMotivation To WinSports CompetitionWinning SportsHockey TeamGreat AthleticWinning InspirationalMotivational WinningWinning MotivationalMotivational HockeyGreatest HockeyAthletic CompetitionInspirational HockeyGive It Your All Author:Gordie Howe