A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to read more

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

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.

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.

Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!

Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the read more

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.