repeats itself

"Our graduate students are too happy," he said, "and we really must do something about that." He proceeded to quote Martina Navratilova on Chris Evert (or, more likely, paraphrase), "Well, Chris is married now and seems really happy, which probably explains why her game has fallen off." I'm both joyously vindicated and a little bit queasy. What you call "fallen off" I call failure....