I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (ed. Back Bay Books, 2009) - ISBN: 9780316090520