“At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an en...” — Simon van der Meer Quote

“At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).”

“My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.”

“I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.”

“Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.”

“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”

“Maybe 5 or 10 minutes before going on the court, I'll do some fast feet movements or sprint, but the only problem with that is sometimes after you finish warming up, you wait to get on the court, and you end up cooling down a little. It's not always ideal, but that's why I wait until the very last moment to do all of this.”