Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can...
I don't pay much attention to sports.
As a teacher at Princeton I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel in one sense is a problem-solving exercise.