Quote of the Day

 

I much prefer the sharpest criticism

of a single intelligent man to the

thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

Quote of the Day

 

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Edward Hopper

Quote of the Day

 

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and

an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Arnold Eric Sevareid

Quote of the Day

 

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes

down rat holes with baited breath.

William Claude Dukenfield, a.k.a. W.C. Fields

Quote of the Day

 

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.

The other day she looked at my calendar

and wanted to know who May was.

Jacob Cohen, a.k.a. Rodney Dangerfield

Bleeding Purple

 

TCU legend Richard Sybesma joined us over the weekend on Swim Talk A2B.  Listen here

 

00:00 – Disclaimer & banter

01:47 – Introducing TCU’s Richard Sybesma

02:55 – Getting started Andrews, Texas

05:23 – On to Texas Tech

07:58 – Coaching start in Monahans

09:22 – TCU:  Right Place/Right Time

11:37 – Sticking with the Horned Frogs

13:15 – Remembering the AIAW years

15:25 – ’96 Atlanta w/Walter Soza

16:22 – ’02 Salt Lake City torch runner

17:05 – Conference USA All-Sport COTY

18:06 – Nathan Lin signing at TCU

19:18 – Facility:  Doing more with less

20:24 – Into the Big XII

21:15 – New facility on the horizon?

22:04 – It can be done:  Forest Park Pool

24:01 – Fort Worth Swimming Frogs

26:54 – Balmorhea State Park Pool

29:20 – International travel & connections

32:11 – Richard’s Coaching Family Tree

35:30 – Dana’s UT assistant years

37:52 – Look like an athlete!

38:40 – Sneaking fun into the work & travel

41:15 – Altitude/Attitude

42:45 – Navy Seal Training

44:18 – Lessons & water safety

46:35 – Retirement = Work

48:13 – Wrapping it up

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker

 

Quote of the Day

 

What I am looking for is a

blessing not in a disguise.

Jerome Klapka Jerome

Quote of the Day

 

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at

whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Sarah Spark

Quote of the Day

 

I was highly attracted to chess for

forty or forty-five years;  then, little

by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

Quote of the Day

 

Problems are the outward signs

of unused inner possibilities.

Rollo Reece May

Quote of the Day

 

There's nothing scarier than

a reckless prosecutor.

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson

Quote of the Day

 

Power is always dangerous.  Power attracts

the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Paul Abbey

Quote of the Day

 

I cannot and will not

cut my conscience to

fit this year's fashion.

Lillian Florence Hellman

Quote of the Day

 

An administrator in a bureaucratic world

is a man who can feel big by merging his

non-entity in an abstraction.  A real

person in touch with real things

inspires terror in him.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan