In a place where everything is so real and filled with grime and frustration and challenges and, all too often, death, football nearly is
Why sports are appealing
Joan Rivers
I’m in a business where it’s not about race. It’s about talent. And hard work. Period. You got it, you make it. You don’t
Charles S. Pierce, Sportwriter
‘Look’, said my friend, ‘if a shortstop showed up here and was as obviously not up to the job as Dukakis is, the poor
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Few things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match. It stirs a romantic illusion about
Beryl Bainbridge
To what other section of society should they owe allegiance? Not to country; we’re going into Europe. Not to community; we all isolated, shut
Earl Warren
I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Stanley Rous
In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Martin Gross
Blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new