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“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”

Mean Individual Nations Sports Wonder England Train Western Tiny Toys Passengers Insufficient Indignant Locomotives

Book:The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902

“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?”

Stills Games Sports Pay Wonder Groups Lessons Ego Sake Lips Uplifting Teamwork Often Is Camaraderie Really True Lip Service Taming

Author:Michel Martin

“If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Play Sports Wonder Saws Baseball Beer No Idea Germany Drivers Truck Truck Driver

Author:Andy Van Slyke

“My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.”

Sometimes Sports Prayer Wonder Trouble Please Let Me Constant These Days Swings Sometimes I Wonder Choppers

Book:The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

Source: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the campaign of 1952

“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.”

Way Mind Courses Games Sports Challenges Wonder Discipline Golf Golfers Golf Course Great Golf Squash Golf Game Golf Putting Wonder Of Nature

Author:Tom Watson

“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.”

Might Found Felt Sports Wonder Saws Greatness Adventure Difficulty Moved Presses Grades Ingredients Climbing Benches

Author:Peter Croft

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.”

Men Sports Wonder Special Intellectual Luxury

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'”

Feels Guy Sports Wonder Athlete Pro Athlete

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"”

Ifs Men Way Real Would Be Wanted Beautiful Sports Ability Wonder Happened Team Be Good Dramatic Wow Olympics Medal Athletic Coverage Atlanta Archery Athletic Ability

Author:Geena Davis

“I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.”

Thinking Kind Self Sports Wonder Novel Rich Serving Self Serving

Author:Chad Harbach