The Psychology of Winners

A winner is what they call in their terminology a shot that is unreturnable because for example it's going too fast or it's too near the edge. The trouble with winners is that they are also more risky than normal shots so in trying to put it too fast you may go out and thus lose the point. Peter Medowar: "If you're trying to feed the world and that is your overriding consideration, then science is the art of the soluble"