Quotations

«The way to do it right is to take every kid aside one by one and tell them privately what they did well and didn't do well, ... You want to let kids understand that failure is a part of getting better. The big problem is when failure is just presented as failure. That's traumatizing.»

«Age is relative, especially in sports,»

«People are achieving at such high levels in sports that we're consistently seeing the impossible, whether it's overcoming an age barrier or a handicap.»

«He played three straight five-set matches before the (four-set) final. If that's a geezer, I want to be a geezer, too.»

«The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.»

«It's a major advance in terms of developing reconstructed tissue,»

«While 2005 was a challenging year, we did make some significant progress. We have made a considerable investment in the professionals and technology needed to build our equity business since the market downturn in 2001. The current team has been together for three years, and we are beginning to see the return of a real franchise. Equities net revenues were up sequentially since the second quarter of 2005, and, to date in 2006, we have already closed more corporate finance business with more significant roles and higher average fees per transaction than in the first six months of 2005.»

«The problem is when they are overly focused on their kids and coaching or criticizing their kids.»

«The main effect is it kills the fun for the athlete. If you're not having fun and you're being pressured, you are going to be tight. You can't perform at any level if you are physically tight.»

«They need to learn to keep the focus on the now.»