Max Seibald quotes

“Play with no fear of failure.”
-- Max Seibald

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“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.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”

“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”

“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”

“I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”

“There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.”

“With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.”

Source : Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

“The free man is the man with no fears.”

Source : Dick Gregory (1968). “Write me in!”