Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to be. Academics became more important to him and he became a good student. Third grade had been a real setback because he had to learn to read Braille, forcing him to stay back a year in school, but he was able to learn quickly and started to excel. An even greater accomplishment, however, was learning to walk with a cane when he was 14. He spent two summers learning to walk around a city by himself and learning how to cook and play children's games. At first, walking alone was frightening; this forced him to be alert...
...Irish obviously have a tremendous cultural advantage in all of these field; William Butler Yeats, sources say, would have made a phenomenal barkeep if he'd been about 25 pounds heavier. As it is, the average Gaelic male has just the right blend of good humor and patience to excel in the field. (In my own day, for instance, I once let a customer drink two bottles of Worcestershire sauce before calling a stop to the fun; and I didn't even charge...
...unfair to compare Carew, whose forte is hitting for average, to players who excel and surpass Carew in other aspects of the game, like Reggie Jackson and Joe Morgan...
Turner's reputation as the "Mouth of the South"-whether on land, at sea or hi Bowie Kuhn's hair-has tended to obscure his extraordinary sailing skill. He began to sail when, as a boy, he was too small and uncoordinated to excel at any other sport. "I didn't have a lot of natural athletic ability," says the immodest man modestly, "but this was a game that took nerves and brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged...
Royce N. Flippin Jr., athletic director at Princeton, disagrees with Mackey. "The real key is not what sport it is, or whether it's Ivy League or not, it's the quality of the program. If the student thinks he or she can excel he'll come, hardnosed inner-city kid or not." But Flippin admits that personal contact between coaches and players is often necessary to remove misconceptions about Ivy League athletics--especially in sports such as basketball and wrestling, two "inner-city" sports in which Princeton is the Ivy League champion...