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When Josh comes out of the locker room, he kisses his father, hugs Joyce, gives his mom a kiss and says softly to her, "I have basketball practice on Monday. It's important to me." The coach called practice when the team lost. Josh wants to be with his team even if it means cutting short his visit with Mom. The delicate letting-go stage of parenting has begun...
...time of her 1975 defection. A stinging loss then could push her past tears to sobs at courtside. Sculpting her body to a point near perfection, and maybe to half a crank beyond that, Navratilova eventually learned to do her crying offstage. With bruised eyes, she reappeared from the locker room 45 minutes after the only Wimbledon final she ever lost, to say the right things. "It's not so bad. I'm happy for Steffi today . . . She's a nice human being. I could feel what she was feeling. I know what...
...wouldn't matter." For a year or two, he patiently waited his turn. "Then I got to the questioning stage, from there to the doubting stage, from there to the changing-everything stage." After a while, the kidding of friends and the kind telegrams from strangers stopped. "In the locker room, the other players didn't know what to say. I could feel their helplessness as much...
...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...
...psyche themselves for the race different rowers have different styles. "You go out quietly, put your boat in the water and hammer it down there. It's not like football, you know, where you yell and scream and bang your head on a locker," explained Hugh Silk, a freshman rower who will miss the remainder of the season because of a back injury...