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en Fencing has a special niche or groove -- it's all in the mind and the arm.
  Jim Murray

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 We still have a long way to go. His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. 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 We are a member club of the United States Fencing Association, which governs fencing throughout the country. That means we can hold tournaments and our members can go to tournaments. Many clubs throughout the country host tournaments on a fairly regular basis. Most tournaments are in Pittsburgh or State College, a few in Cleveland and Harrisburg or anywhere that's got fencing. We also go down to West Virginia frequently.

en I just randomly got the idea, that fencing would be fun and no one else does it. I have asthma so I couldn't do a lot of other sports, like soccer and basketball, fencing a perfect fit for me.

en Part of fencing is psychological, using your mind, patience and waiting for the right moment to strike.

en We're going for the win, and Prince has a better chance of hitting a home run. That's the hardest thing to do in baseball. You have to have a special frame of mind going up there. He's got that special mind-set.

en In America, when people dueled, they would use pistols. We didn't have fencing schools where gentlemen went to learn the sword. In Europe they had that, and those schools became the basis of the fencing clubs they still have today.

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 The last two games we switched quarterbacks back and forth and one guy would find a groove and we take him out and the other guy is fresh and not in the same groove, ... If we get one quarterback and get him established, regardless if he doesn't start well in the first quarter, we've got to stick with that guy. One of them has to find their groove.

en When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but was still nice enough to work with us and help us along. So I always had it in the back of my mind that there was this Zen kind of philosophy, this martial arts aspect to fencing.

en We don't agree. We feel it fills a special niche.

en There could be no replacement for Army, and no one will replace him, ... His niche and talents are very special.

en We seem to be finding our niche a little bit. If the special teams on both sides keep going, hopefully we can keep winning.

en A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less than a lot of the major chains can and they've been able to capitalize on it.


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