“Sophocles danced and played ball well.”
Albert Camus
more infosource: Notebook IX, in Albert Camus: Notebooks 1951–1959, trans. by Ryan Bloom (Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2008), 244.
category: dance, Sophocles, sports
medium: Notebook
“The best results always come when you’re focusing on nothing but execution and letting the results just happen as they will.”
Tom Lehman
more infosource: “Tiger’s Search for Golf Stamina,” Golf Journal, The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2009.
category: advice, craft, creative process, execution, golf, sports
medium: Newspaper article
via: Caroline Ellen“I love baseball. I live for the spring. It gets me through half of the year, and then I have to figure out how to make it through the other half. There’s a real poetry to baseball. It’s like life, because for a long period of time absolutely nothing happens. And then all of a sudden, ‘A triple play, unassisted!'”
Emmylou Harris
more infosource: “Emmylou Harris,” interviewed by Lucinda Williams, BOMB magazine, Issue 59, Spring 1997.
category: baseball, hope, sports, spring
medium: Interview
“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
Nick Hornby
more infosource: “Home Debut: Arsenal v. Stoke City,” in Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead Trade, 1992), 15.
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category: England, love, soccer, sports
medium: Memoir
“I’d rather not talk at all, to be honest with you.”
Troy Polamalu
more infosource: “A Defensive Anchor Walks a Spiritual Path,” by Karen Krouse, The New York Times, January 12, 2011.
category: football, silence, spirituality, sports, talk
medium: newspaper article
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