April 29, 2009
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“I thought about giving up at least fifty times. I thought about a lot of things: about those who will surely say I’m up shit creek; about those who taunted me with unflattering jeers; about Marie-Laure [his wife], who must have been crying when she heard the news on the radio; and about all my problems since the beginning of the season.
Too many people were hoping I’d give up. But you don’t just drop out of the Tour like that.”
—Jean-Francois “Jeff” Bernard, 1988
“I had nothing left. I can’t even say that my lungs were on fire or that my legs ached terribly. No, I wasn’t hurting. I just didn’t have any energy left. It plays with your mind—it’s terrible.”
—Greg LeMond, 1992
“Oscillating between destinies, I was honoring glory and failure alike: an ordinary man trying to find his place somewhere between the animals and the gods.”
—Tim Moore, French Revolutions
break a leg and all that jazz
ReplyDeleteI hope it ends - "and then a shark ate them. The end."
Will (with two "L"s)
As I sat at the Wednesday evening performance, I got the sense that the audience was sitting there listening to an aging cyclist reminiscing aloud about his past and present condition and reacting to things around him in a very natural manner. It was as if he was having a casual conversation with the audience. There was no hint that the Actor had memorize every word, no hint that many hours had been spent on directing his every movement and no hint of the time spent creating the sound bites. With a well written script and capable tecniticians, the play flowed naturally. Well done. Tom Sr.
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