I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.
To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.
I think people relate to the person who gets knocked down or maybe has to come from behind and get that victory.
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.
Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.