I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.".

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.".

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father

I lost it in the sun!
(after fumbling a grounder.)

I lost it in the sun!
(after fumbling a grounder.)

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white read more

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good read more

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

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.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind read more

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

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)

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was read more

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
(on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)