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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball Scoring Champion
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: The first day that you go to play for Coach Wooden, he tells you about how to put your socks on. And the reason he does that is because his system requires that you do everything on the run. You don't jog through things, you have to run full speed. The wear and tear on your feet is immediate and intense, and if your socks aren't on right, if you have like a ridge that you're running over in your sock, you're going to get a blister and then you won't be able to practice, and if you don't practice for Coach Wooden, you don't play. So he was telling everybody how to survive his system and get through it without coming up with blisters on their feet.
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Edward Albee
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Edward Albee: I don't rewrite. Well, not much. I think I probably do all the rewriting that I'm going to do before I'm aware that I'm writing the play because obviously, the creativity resists -- resides -- in the unconscious, right? Probably resists the unconscious, too -- resides in the unconscious. My plays, I think, are pretty much determined before I become aware of them. I think they formulated there, and then they move into the conscious mind, and then onto the page. By the time I'm willing to commit a play to paper, I pretty much know -- or can trust -- the characters to write the play for me. So, I don't impose. I let them have their heads and say and do what they want, and it turns out to be a play.
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Tenley Albright
Olympic Gold Medal Figure Skater
Tenley Albright: It was about four o'clock in the morning. I had discovered that there were two rinks in Boston where, if they hadn't sold the ice for hockey for the next morning, if I called after ten o'clock at night, they'd let me use the ice and have it all to myself until the hockey game or hockey practice started. So I did that one morning. I carried my own phonograph and my skates, and it was snowing, and I unlocked the back door of the rink. But just before I did, actually, my feet slipped out from under me, flew up in the air. I fell down, all my things around me, burst out laughing and realized there wasn't a soul around. It was very, very quiet. But I had the ice all to myself that morning. I had been shown where to put the lights on. I could play the music as loud as I wanted, as many times as I wanted.
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