James J. Martin quotes

James J. Martin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.”
-- James J. Martin

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.”
“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.”
“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
“The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.”
“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.”
“Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.”
“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.”
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
“On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.”

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