If youre not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably dont have the expectations of yourself that you should have. – Hale Irwin
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. – Hale Irwin
Ive felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, youre dealing in the negativity of things. I dont like that. Id rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. – Hale Irwin
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye