Quotes About Evolution

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Life is one big transition.

The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.

Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.

In m second year I attended a public debate on a theme that interested me, though not by its novelty: does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones? In those days that theme was supposed to be religious as well as scientific, so the principle speakers swerved from fanatical solemnity to facetious jocularity, and changed the ground of their argument whenever it gave them the slightest advantage over their opponents.