Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
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It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
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I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
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I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
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The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
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The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
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I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.
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I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
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Tara (Lipinski) got out there like a bat out of hell and skated her guts out. Michelle skated very well, but she skated conservatively. She skated great, just not fantastic. That was the difference.
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We know every team's out to get us. We have a target on our chest. Every team is trying to get revenge on us. We know that, now that we're in league, everybody's bringing their A game.
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We know what they're trying to get after, ... and we want to keep them from that.
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With vacuum fluctuations, we have to distinguish between evidence for the existence of the fluctuations, and for their energy.
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We're real concerned. We have not had a great season on special teams.
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Ultimately this bill would mean new roads, new schools and new mass transit along with thousands of new jobs throughout the state.
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Very dramatic. As exciting as it can be. A wonderful day for college football. It's something we'll never forget. For an energy junkie like me, it can't get any better than that. To be challenged to the last tick of the clock is really special for me.