“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.” SchoolFallThreeSportsHoursFootballBasketballSpringAccountsWinterAthleteTrackWho I AmNutsAfter SchoolWinter To Spring Author:Terry Crews
“In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.” PeopleRealSportsMajorsAccountsCustomersConstructionEstatesBrokers Author:Roger Staubach
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.” WorldChildrenStatesLightPurposeGamesForceSportsWealthPerfectUnitedBusinessPayDarknessUnited StatesFansIllusionExpectationsAccountsRemainsInnocenceTriumphPreservesMotivational SportsRitualImmenseCeremonyPlausiblePortrayalBlameless Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!” WarLastsNightSportsRaceHeardSubjectsAccountsInternationalSubstitutesProfessorsLast NightLecturesMotorcycleCannonsPhysiologicalGlandsAdrenal Glands Author:James McKeen Cattell
“Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.” IfsWould BeScienceChoicesSportsDisciplineEssentialsIntellectualAccountsCompetitionIntellectDefinedWelfareScholarRuinedNomadSpecialtyWithdrawing Author:Benoit Mandelbrot