Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/23/60minutes/main1433767.shtml, cbsnews.com (2006)
“I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle.”
Magnus Carlsen (1990) Norwegian chess player
Meet Magnus Carlsen, The New King of Chess - TIME, Eben Harrell Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948809,00.html
“I am a tremendous optimist for someone who has grown up amid the twilight of American competence.”
Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist
Vanity Fair, "Why the Hacks Hate Michael Hastings" http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings, 23 July 2010.
Javon Ringer (1987) All-American college football player, professional football player, running back
Quoted here http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2008-09-17-454393947_x.htm
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature
Source: The Great God Brown and Other Plays
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist
Message No. 10
Messages from Maitreya the Christ (1981)
“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.”
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
“It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do.”
Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping
Source: Lighthousekeeping (2004), p. 199
