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Alex Morgan, USA Women's Soccer player |
From sports to humor, from health to happiness, timing is
everything. You can throw a zinger to first base, but it doesn’t do a bit of
good if the runner beats you there, and who cares if you have a killer swing if
you’ve already missed the pitch? In these Summer Olympics, over and over again
we’ve seen split-second timing make all the difference. Suppose the women’s
water polo coach hadn’t called a timeout with one second left in the game
against Australia; no nail-biting overtime would have ensued. On the other
hand, what if the most recent women’s soccer game hadn’t gone into overtime? We would have missed Alex Morgan’s spectacular
header, the game-winning goal over Canada that sent the U.S. team to the gold-medal round. And half the art of telling a
good joke is timing, too. Even with a great punch line, you won’t get any
laughs if you deliver it too early or too late.
