by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Sports Articles
We have all read them, all those sayings about winning and losing. Vince Lombardi famously (or maybe fatuously) declared that “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” while Knute Rockne stated boldly, “Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a...
by admin | Jul 23, 2024 | Sports Articles
For years, mainly courtesy of the Stella Awards, there has been circulating a popular story of a man who “purchased a brand-new motorhome. On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s...
by admin | Jul 23, 2024 | Sports Articles
The ‘10,000 Hour Rule’, popularised by Malcom Gladwell, has been discussed at length in many quarters. We are led to believe that success in any field will come if we put in 10,000 hours of practice, though others add that it must be intensive,...
by admin | Jul 23, 2024 | Sports Articles
William Congreve probably never imagined the interest he would initiate when he wrote in his play ‘The Mourning Bride’ in 1697 that “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned”. Some have...
by admin | Jul 23, 2024 | Sports Articles
Alun Wyn Jones is a legend in the world of rugby. He is the world’s most-capped player in that sport with 162 international appearances, has the most caps as the captain of Wales, is one of only four players to have been selected for four British and Irish...
