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.

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.

Pursuit Of Knowledge Is An Attempt To Discover Established Principles Of The Kingdom Of God

The very essence of life is to love and very essence of love is to be beloved.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.

Strange, that certain superiority the goer-away feels for the stayer-at-home.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

You've got one go in life, so make the most of it.