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I noticed, as I often noticed at English soccer matches, that I was the only person in the stadium enjoying himself. The rest of the spectators, on both sides, were perpetually stressed and dismayed. A man behind me was simply full of despair. Now why did he do that? he would say. What was he thinking? Why didn't he pass it? His companion seemed to have some issues with eighteenth-century German metaphysics because he kept saying over and over, Fucking Kant. I am not quite sure how he was relating this to the actions before us, but every time Everton failed to score, he called them a load of fucking Kants. — Bill Bryson The Road to...

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. — Michael Chabon Summerland

how could they be expected to accept the harsh reality of studies showing that of the thirty million children taking part in youth sports in the United States, only about two hundred would go on to become professionals in any given year? — H. G. Bissinger Friday Night...

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

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