The red double-decker bus was packed with celebrities in various stages of decay. Actors, singers, sportsmen and then there was me. The reason we were all riding the bus? A celebrity pub crawl to introduce a slew of imported beers into Australia. Carlsberg Elephant Beer, Grolsch, Corona to name a few. The rest escape my mind, my memory is hazy at best; completely gone at … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
The wisdom of Charles Wade Barkley
I wanted to include a quote from Charles Barkley as one of this months “Aphorisms”. Problem was, he said so many funny, cool, wise, obnoxious, opinionated and crazed things that I couldn’t just stop at one. Solution? Create an entire story about the wit and wisdom of Charles Wade Barkley. One of the best! Charles Barkley, one of the greatest NBA players of all time, was not … [Read more...]
Nietzsche on becoming a great athlete!
Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, played as the starting number ten for the German national football team when he was only eighteen years old! He wanted to play rugby but, unlike Great Britain, France and Italy, Germans have always turned their noses up at such barbaric pastimes as “rugga.” Fred, therefor, never got the chance to live out his burning desire to play in the front … [Read more...]
Scorers and a play-makers. Is there is difference?
When coaches talk about the difference between a number 9 and a number 10 in soccer, a point-guard and a shooting-guard in basketball, a fly-half and a centre-three-quarter in rugby, a quarter-back and a running-back in American Football or a goal-attack and a goal-shooter in netball the focus tends to be on the differences in either the skill sets or the physical attributes of … [Read more...]
When being a proven waterman is not enough!
When he told his story in his own surfing magazine, Doug Lees described himself as an average Joe staring death in the face. In truth, Doug is no average Joe. In his sporting life, his business life and in his personal life his achievements, (and even more importantly, the manner of his achievements), show him to be a very special character. This character rarely stands back … [Read more...]