The game was closer than the score indicated.
(after a 1-0 game)

The game was closer than the score indicated.
(after a 1-0 game)

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part read more

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.'

Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.'

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
(after his team had defeated read more

It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
(after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)