What, I think, initiated the urge to succeed through power was the world rating system whereby we know once a week where this man or woman stands in a descending list of the best. Thus Martina Hingis, although she hasn't won one of the majors for 18 months, is still number one. In golf Tiger Woods, as everybody knows, number one. David Duval number two. It's outstanding success that people flock to see not beautiful or skilled playing.
Individual success is equated with strength - muscular power.
So innocents go to watch a man drive a ball 320 yards, which has little to do with being supreme at golf. In tennis the men's game has become a scene of muscle men slugging away from the baseline. In the women's game, the arrival of the terrifying Williams sisters. They slam dunk impossible cross court shots beyond the quick reach of an ordinary human being. I want to say at once that the sisters and Tiger happen to have splendid bodies which they've trained to whipcord perfection by dedicated, hour after hour, daily exercise - no drugs.