Sublime

I didn’t know how I’d be received or if the way I saw myself would bother anyone else. I didn’t care. I wore facial hair, for instance—a sharp goatee and a thin mustache. Over time, I developed a calculated air of mystery so that my teammates would never be able to take me for granted (or later on to see that I happened to like them). I had a job t

Skunk Works creator Kelly Johnson was a visionary on at least two fronts—designing airplanes and organizing genius. Johnson seemed to know intuitively what talented people needed to do their best work, how to motivate them, and how to make sure that the desired product was created as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In time, Johnson wrote down t

I watched the general flow on the court for a while, and it was soon clear enough who had drawn the crowd, and that he was the most graceful and classical basketball player who had ever been near Princeton, to say the very least. Every motion developed in its simplest form. Every motion repeated itself precisely when he used it again. He was remark

To my surprise, every Manchester United player I’ve spoken to and interviewed said Sir Alex Ferguson didn’t care about tactics, strategies and formations. He cared primarily about getting the best out of each individual, the team’s culture and their attitude; he didn’t want them ever to become complacent.

With all his analyses of its mechanics, Bradley may have broken his game down into its components, but he has reassembled it so seamlessly that all the parts, and also his thousands of hours of practice, are concealed. He is as fluidly graceful as any basketball player I have ever seen.

Jones played a vital but unsung role in FDR’s life. He woke him in the morning, bathed him, dressed him, and took care of his most basic needs—a gentle caregiver without whom Roosevelt could not have functioned.