But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

'Cars' is a really personal story for me because, first of all, I grew up in Los Angeles - the car crazy capital.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.