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“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stories Would Be Lost Sports Hours Memories Magic Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Evening Charm Lakes Fishing Camps Brooks Cottages Inns Anglers

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.”

Said Problem School Lost Sports Process Teacher Nervous Enthusiasm Upset Grades Lazy Flunking

Author:Bruce Jenner

“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”

People Knows Three Winning Lost Sports Team Beats Seasons Motivated Three Times Chelsea

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage.”

World Years Energy Lost Sports Careers Player Wonderful Stage Balls Moved Singers Celebrate Vibrations Baskets Transmit Good Vibrations

Author:Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

“From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.”

Fall Lost Sports Competition March October

Author:Scott Hamilton

“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”

People Looks Important Self School Belief Lost Sports Consciousness Strange Elements Awful Proportion Significance Narcissism Shyness Self Consciousness

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.”

People Shows Law Lost Sports Retired Footballer Scottish

Author:Martin Shaw