If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
David HalberstamThe truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
David HalberstamRowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.
David Halberstam