"It feels amazing to win again and Ben's had a great tournament, he's beaten some great players".
"I know I have beaten some great players, which is very satisfying.
He had waged tremendous battles here, but had never beaten the great Roger Federer here.
There was the victory over Alfredo Escalera, a featherweight champion, and the one over Vilomar Fernandez, who had beaten the great Alexis Arguello.
Ngaio's claim to sporting fame was having once beaten the great left-handed golfer Bob Charles, a winner of the Open championship.
But Kirstein described the choreographer's idea for the ballet's overture: a black curtain that is "clutched and twisted and beaten, and great waves of motion go across it" as dancers behind it poke with hands and feet.
Even on the victory stand, with a gold medal around his neck, the national anthem of the Netherlands playing and his country's flag being raised above the pool, Pieter van den Hoogenband shook his head as if he could not believe he had beaten the great Ian Thorpe.
The reorganization assumes that Tyson (50-4) will fight five times through November 2005 (with dispensation to stretch the fights out over two more years, when he'll be 41), an extraordinary amount of work for a boxer who has not fought in 17 months and has not beaten a great opponent since Ronald Reagan was in his second term.
Sir Walter Raleigh claimed after her death that Elizabeth's caution had impeded the war against Spain: If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.
In his opening address, Ray Kurzweil points out that an IBM computer called Watson, had recently beaten the greatest human champions of the TV quiz game Jeopardy: "And that's not just through statistical analysis.
