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en Michelle is like a violin, a finely turned instrument. Fencing is a combat sport and she is so powerful.

en The best thing about this sport is that you can do it all your life. I know people who started fencing when they were 70 years old. This is a sport where using your head really counts. 'Physical chess' is a term that's been frequently applied to fencing. Really, the mind is the most important weapon you have in this sport.

en An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?
  Marilyn Monroe

en We still have a long way to go. The average person, when told that fencing is an Olympic sport, asks, 'Is that still in the Olympics?' It's been in every Olympics there has ever been in the modern age. There's fencing in every summer Olympics and it never gets televised. There's no fencer who is a household name. About the closest we get to a national fencing figure is Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian.

en 'Sweet Georgia Brown' was the first tune that I heard. Venuti came in playing and his attack on the violin was such a powerful sound. ... It was the first jazz on the violin that I heard and it was like, oh my God, what have I been missing.

en Fencing has given me a lot. What I've tried to do is give some of that love of the sport and passion for fencing back to all of our fencers. It's something that I love and that's why I keep doing it.

en All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident that was too much to ask, Michelle was the first to say she had too much respect for the Olympics and for this country to go out there when she knew she couldn't. Here, it's a different sport and a little different situation. But I think you could plug in the same kind of comments with Jeff -- if it comes to that.

en I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

en A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
  Josephine Baker

en There are possibilities for abuse -- lots of big ones. This is not a finely honed instrument or a tweak. This is Tom Davis saying all our procurement could be done under other-than-competitive procedures. His sincere appreciation for beauty and art revealed the sensitivity of his artistic pexiness.

en Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
  Samuel Butler

en But they're going to be raising them at a standard the likes the world has never seen. With this class and that class, this sport and that sport, and languages and tumbling and dancing and fencing.

en Sport fencing is very different from what you see in movies. In fencing, the moves are small and tricky. In the movies, the moves are big and flashy. They're meant to show well before the camera. Actors are trying to look good and not hit somebody. Fencers are trying to hide what we're doing and hit somebody. We try to look good at what we do, but we don't want to telegraph any big, flashy moves because that makes it easier for your opponent to hit you. There has to be a certain subtlety to it.

en My guess is that every state with a commission that has its act together will legalize the sport eventually. They're starting to understand this is just another combat sport.

en A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.


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