He was also brilliant under pressure, demonstrated in 1972 when he fronted BBC coverage of the Munich Olympics massacre with dignity and authority.
Unless you are truly brilliant under pressure, professors can spot most of these ploys at a glance, and they grade accordingly.
The mouths of the northern Alpine valleys, the basins of the Jura Mountains, and the villages and cities of the low areas of the Mittelland are blanketed for days and often for weeks on end, while towns located at higher altitudes enjoy warm, brilliant, high-pressure conditions and the view of the glistening sea of fog below them.
The other is that with each brilliant touch, the pressure to make it count becomes greater.
September: Ebbsfleet manager Steve Brown on club owner Dr Abdulla Al-HumaiDr: "Dr Abdulla is brilliant at relieving pressure.
By the end, as hard as it was to see, the top-seeded Federer and the second-seeded Nadal had produced so much brilliant tennis under pressure that it seemed the most normal thing in the world that Federer smacked yet another ace to get out of trouble or that Nadal hunted down yet another sharply angled ground stroke and ripped an off-balance passing shot for a winner.
"But luckily the medical team and coaching staff have been brilliant, not putting pressure on me and taking it day by day".
He had the upper hand going into the final session but Murphy pulled a frame back, before Bingham's brilliant 102 under pressure put him three away from victory at 15-12.
Yet within this chaos of everyday life, our love solidifies into an unbreakable, brilliant diamond; under pressure, the mundane is transformed into the extraordinary.
It doesn't matter if he is playing in front of five people or 50,000, his approach is the same, and that is why he can become brilliant in high-pressure situations.
