On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one’s happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar still is concerning oneself about ball games played decades before one’s...

if you gone come in second, you’re just the first loser!

Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt ‘The Moment of No Return’, a point of pure agony when the body told an athlete to...

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.

Swimming is simply moving meditation.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don’t you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team’s ten goals better off.

I like cup holders—in cars, as well as in jockstraps. I would have played football, but the only helmet I had belonged to a bicycle that coach said was illegal on the field.

If running a marathon excites you, create space in your life for it. Adding a new commitment means recalibrating different areas of your world. Logging more miles as your race date approaches means less time...

Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading...

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I’m not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my...

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has...

Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to...

I’ve got a Don Baylor,” J.T. said.”California sucks this year.”Ralph snickered. “I wouldn’t use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

I’m not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.

love of sport.

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You...

Being strong is not how hard you hit but its as hard you can get hit and keep going that is how winning is done.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game’s greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game,...

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

That’s what really got me passionate about American motor sports. Ever since that point, I’ve kind of aspired to being out here.

A tie is like an arrow pointing to my crotch. A tie is also like an even score.

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

I’ll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

going to take the baton from us and take a very serious look at how these different sports regulate themselves and their athletes.

You all know and lived the ‘secrets’ to De La Salle’s success-love, brotherhood, sacrifice, discipline, heart, courage, passion, honesty. These are not just ‘catch words’ we throw around to impress others or justify our existence....

If the price tag for sports is too high, our customers shouldn’t be forced to pay for it,

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each...

You go through your options. In this case, the conclusion was that a sports facility is all it could be.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Why do you like show jumping?””… Beauty and excitement. The elements of trust, talent, training, love, and danger make show jumping a thrilling and aesthetic experience. It’s really the ultimate test of two nervous systems–the...

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys–either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.

The problem with winter sports is that — follow me closely here — they generally take place in winter.

The wheel is man’s greatest invention, and as such, unicycling is the world’s purest sport.

Racing is an escape from society. From symbols of status, and self-perception. A chance to just be. For everyone to just be, with each other.

If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The score never interested me, only the game.

That’s such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship....

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave...

Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.