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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
"It takes physical, spiritual and mental preparation to overcome the life challenges."
"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."
"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
"Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?"
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green."
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
"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."
"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."
"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
"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."
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