This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Always stay in with the outs.

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.