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It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. in both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

-Dick Schaap

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It's Kind Of Ironic That The Two

Dick Schaap

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. in both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

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Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. so raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. it would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like seattle, and traveled to the desert of mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in seattle. alanis always gets the last laugh though. we all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called ironic that wasn't really ironic. those canadians are pretty crafty.

There is a story in zen circles about a man and a horse. the horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «where are you going?» and the first man replies, «i don't know! ask the horse!» this is also our story. we are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. the horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.

It concerns me when i see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. it is teaching the small child to believe that shooting people is heroic. the hero just did it and it was effective. it was acceptable and the hero was well thought of afterward. if enough of us find inner peace to affect the institution of television, the little child will see the hero transform the villain and bring him to a good life. he'll see the hero do something significant to serve fellow human beings. so little children will get the idea that if you want to be a hero you must help people.

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. but boxing is only like boxing.

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. by being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. and if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. and the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. i race to win as long as i feel it's possible. sometimes you get it wrong? sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. but i race designed to win, as long as i feel i'm doing it right.

I like boxing movies. one of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. the actual boxing usually sucks

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