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“I see great things in baseball.”
― Walt Whitman

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

“There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.”
― Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

“Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.”
― Peter Richmond, Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders

“Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“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 time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.
No. I really don’t.
He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal’s fan.
“Loyal,â€� he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town.”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotismâ€� and “love of sport.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.”
― Pat Conroy

“That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld

“Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“In sport the mind serves as the acolyte and apprentice of the body. Nothing interferes with the flow of the game more than the athlete who obsesses about his every move on the court. You move, you react, you recover, you drive, and the thinking is seamless and invisible in the secret codes of your game.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

“When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.”
― Rick Bragg

“One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)”
― Bruce Boudreau, Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

“Részvétet éreztem az ismeretlen sportember iránt, és egyúttal kárörömet is. Úgy kell neki, miért sportember, de ha már sportember, mit keres minálunk. Valószínűleg Å‘ is így érzett volna irányomban, ha a golfpályán látott volna meg engem.”
― Antal Szerb, The Pendragon Legend

“New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.”
― Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry.”
― Neil Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak

“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.”
― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.”
― A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

“What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised.”
― Ryan Whitney

“For success put your energy over which you have control. Do not drain your energy to the things over which you have no control.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.”
― Mick Cochrane, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
― A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

“A baseball club for girls?”
― Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls

“I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.”
― Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls

“He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants to play in the NFL.

Every catch brings him closer to that reality. That's how he thinks of it, anyway. Every time he runs downfield, sees the ball in the air, and hears the defensive back laboring to catch up, whenever he feels that ball fall out of the sky and into his waiting hands, he inches closer to his goals.”
― Neil Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak

“My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.”
― Jaci Burton, All Wound Up

“It's true I have a stay-at-home nature. I abhor physical exercise (except for making love, of course). I've always believed that sport should be left to the dunces.”
― Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon