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"We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions."
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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
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"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
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"I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't."
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"The day they put me in the net I had a good game. I've stayed there since."
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"Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen."
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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
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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."
Death
"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."
Life
"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
Boys
"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."
Home
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
People
"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
Experience
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
Family
"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
Control
"We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions."
Sports
"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."
Death
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