"You never want to see a great athlete pull a Hamlet. Macbeth, yes (bloodbath, you get the crown); King Lear, if you have to (total freakout, everybody suffers). But being a Hamlet in sports is a like being an Othello in gardening. You can find a way to do it, but your roses are going to die."

— Brian Phillips on Roger Federer’s Wimbledon loss.

(Source: grantland.com)