The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

