"That nearly changed the size of the horse," he said in a recent phone interview.
He told the Guardian how Robinson had nearly changed his life's trajectory.
Samuel Tilden, who left $2.4 million to establish a free library in New York, nearly changed his mind when he found out that ninety per cent of the books checked out of the Boston Public Library were fiction.
It scared me". 5. Sonic Youth nearly changed their name to Washing Machine The band's earliest incarnation had many different names including Red Milk, the Arcadians and Male Bonding.
As the president at the University of Washington, he approved of the hiring of Pacific-10 Commissioner Larry Scott, whose aggressive courting of the University of Texas to help form a 16-team superconference nearly changed the paradigm of college sports.
How appropriate, though, that it was Belichick's defense that nearly changed the course of the Jets' season with a fourth-quarter hit on Testaverde in the teams' first meeting, which the Jets won, 20-19, on Sept. 11 at Giants Stadium.
