I don't know this player at all
I know who he is but haven't formed an opinion
I'm not a fan of him
He's growing on me, and I watch him more closely
I really root for him in the game
I like him a lot, but he's not a favorite
He is one of my favorites
He is my favorite player

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

That reads like a poem.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.