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Tennis Quote of the Day: What is Competition?
"Competition is the
opportunity to express your talents and skills, freely and fully, while
overcoming any obstacles with awareness and ease."
--- Dave Breslow, Performance Coach, Wired to Win
--- Dave Breslow, Performance Coach, Wired to Win
Friday, February 6, 2015
Tennis Quote of the Day: "The most beautiful sport there is . . .
"I submit that
tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most
demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination,
quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of
caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts.
Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a
high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables . . .
a net . . . two players in fixed positions . . . angle,
depth, pace, spin . . . And each of these determinants is
itself determined by still other variables . . . height over
the net . . . player's body position, grip on the racket,
height of backswing and angle of racket face, as well as the
3-D coordinates which the racket face moves . . . the ball on
the strings . . . The tree of variables and determinants
branches out and out, on and on, and then on much further when
the opponent's own position and predilections and the
ballistic features of the ball he's sent to you to hit are
factored in. No silicon-based RAM yet existent could compute
the expansion of variables for even a single exchange; smoke
would come out of the mainframe. The sort of thinking involved
is the sort that can be done only by a living and highly
conscious entity . . . by fusing talent with repetition to
such an extent that the variables are combined and controlled
without conscious thought. In other words, serious tennis is a
kind of art."
--- David Foster Wallace, The String Theory, Esquire Magazine, July 1996
--- David Foster Wallace, The String Theory, Esquire Magazine, July 1996
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