Advantages
An above-average reach is advantageous in sports such as basketball, boxing, and swimming. For instance, boxer Sonny Liston had an 84-inch (213 cm) reach despite being only 721⁄2 inches (184 cm) in height. This unusually long reach allowed him to hit opposing boxers from relatively safe distances where they could not reach him.
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Famous quotes containing the word advantages:
“We work harder than ever, and I cannot see the advantages in cooperative living.”
—Lydia Arnold, U.S. commune supervisor (of the North American Phalanx, Red Bank, New Jersey, 1843- 1855)
“The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)