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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for read more
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?
(when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)
They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)
They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)
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.
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.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best read more
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on read more
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your read more
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.".
The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball
The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball
