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“I was in the room here one day... watchin’ the Mexican channel on TV. I don’t know nothin’ about Pele. I’m watchin’ what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in — upside down and backwards... the goalie never knew what hit him.
"Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody’s screaming in Spanish. I’m here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying. That’s right, I start crying. Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... let me tell ya, kid — it was pretty ... glorious. It ain’t the six minutes... it’s what happens in that six minutes.” -- Speech by Elmo, played by the late J.C. Quinn, to high school wrestler Louden Swain in the 1985 movie Vision Quest.

I felt the same way watching the epic Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on Sunday. Thank you to both. —Buddy Wright