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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

They build too low who build beneath the skies.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.