“I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics. ... Playing basketball You have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.”
![“[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the…” quote by Denton Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f48/denton-cooley-33225_activity_the-heart-is-really-a-fascinating-organ_1120230.jpg)
