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If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. |
| by Arthur Lydiard |
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The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.- Ty Cobb
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you are its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
