Bare Quotes
[His performance was a remarkable turnaround by a man whose life has been defined by a remarkable turnaround, his recovery from cancer. Yes, Armstrong won this race a year ago, but just barely, by 61 seconds. Although Ullrich crashed in the final time trial -- taking out a row of hay bales in the pouring rain -- it was the Texan who appeared to be on the slippery slope. His powers seemed to be waning.] It was a very serious wake-up call, ... I think he took a few things for granted last year.
- Johan Bruyneel
[Did he embellish on the script that night?] No... I was in no state to. It felt like I was on another planet. I could barely concentrate; we were just stunned. Really I could barely get us through. At the end of the programme, there was just silence. And then we all shook each other's hands and that was it. It was quite an emotional place Monday.
- Paul Holmes
[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped.] He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea.
- Frank McCourt
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