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It's basically the same, just darker.
(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)
It's basically the same, just darker.
(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to read more
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his read more
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, read more
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the read more
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a read more
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
