Washington Crossing the Delaware. You see that painting in textbooks from the time you're in first grade here in the US and you sort of start to believe it's the size of a movie poster or even smaller. Then you find yourself at the Met here in NYC and the sucker takes up a whole wall... something like 15-20 feet wide.
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
(Michael Jordan)
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