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“Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons.” (The Sports Gene Quotes)
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.’ Foster’s point is that, despite the avant-garde allure of genetic testing, gauging speed indirectly is foolish and inaccurate compared with testing it directly – like measuring a man’s height by dropping a ball from a roof and using the time it takes to hit him in the head to determine how tall he is. Why not just use a tape measure?”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“It is evident that experience is the foundation of the superior achievements of the masters.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“It was a strong clue that one key difference between expert and novice athletes was in the way they had learned to perceive the game, rather than the raw ability to react quickly.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“No one is born with the anticipatory skills required of an elite athlete. When Abernethy studied the eye movement patterns of elite and novice badminton players.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“Statistical analysis showed that about half of each person’s ability to improve their aerobic capacity with training was determined exclusively by their parents.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“The broad truth is that nature and nurture are so interlaced in any realm of athletic performance that the answer is always: it’s both.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“The physical activity that one trains in is very specifically automated in the brain. To return to Abernethy’s point, “thinking” about an action is the sign of a novice in sports, or a key to transforming an expert.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“The same medicine should not be prescribed for every athlete. For some, less training is the right medicine.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
“Without both genes and environments, there are no outcomes.”
David Epstein
The Sports Gene
