Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'