Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.
At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.
Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.
We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got m...
Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere love of it?
I've had so many injuries.
There's one rule of thumb that suggests that you need one day of recovery for every mile run in a race. Another rule of thumb...suggests one day...for every kilometer run in anger.
We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inad...
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
No, I had a back injury early on in my life.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
I appreciate very much being injury-free.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
