Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended. – Bill Toomey
The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. – Bill Toomey
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. – Bill Toomey
As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise. – Bill Toomey
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)