PARADOXES OF PERFORMANCES
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.
—KEN GRIFFEY SR.
Sometimes you have to get worse before you get better.
—TOM WATSON
Why are boxing rings square? Why is the foul pole fair?
These questions illustrate the contradictory and paradoxical nature of sports.
A paradox is defined as a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true. After Steve McKinney broke the world downhill ski record he said, “I discovered the middle path of stillness within speed, calmness within fear, and I held it longer and quieter than ever before.” Whenever I think about paradoxes I recall Muhammad Ali’s heavyweight title fight against George Foreman in Zaire, Africa. Who would have thought that a boxer ...
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