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John Thorn

"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."

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"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."

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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."

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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."

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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."

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"Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?"

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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."

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"Trials and tribulations are nothing but opportunities to test the true potential of your mind."

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"My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality."

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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
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"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League."
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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."
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"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."
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"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."
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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
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