A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

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.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

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

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

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.