"They were picking at other blacks, saying, 'This is what's going to happen to you if you come here, so keep your butts away.' They aren't doing this to hurt us, they do it to discourage little black girls and black boys so they won't take over tennis like they did football and basketball and baseball".
Try not to preach or pick at others for what may seem like a lack of discipline on their part.
Watching him in clips from throughout his career, one is struck most by his hands, which keep busy, whether he is listening or talking, and independently of what he is saying -- clasped together, tucked up under his chin, rolling a pen, half-balled and beating time to his words, fingers of one hand playing with the other, picking at each other, folding up under his chin.
"Each one will find a way to pick at the other.
"They are like puppies, constantly picking at each other and play-fighting.
The minute the two of them started talking, they were arguing and picking at each other, he said.
Among apes and monkeys, physical contact -- tickling, scratching and picking at each other's lice -- functions as social glue, establishing hierarchies and alliances and communicating empathy or remorse.
Most of Eva's acquaintances are divorced and the one couple who are not – Sarah Toni Collettee) and Will (Ben Falcone) – spend their entire time picking at each other's foibles.
Do you really think that two men picking at each other aren't "catty?" If we're going to call people catty, let's include the men too, OK? Sure, Carly Fiorina is catty, but so is Rush Limbaugh.
In other words, tournament officials cannot use high-def, super slo-mo video to determine if a ball moved as a player picked at adjacent twigs or other debris.
