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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
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“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”
Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”
Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004. 
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“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”
Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
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“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”
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“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
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“Sometimes when we’re focused on quickly getting to our destination, we’ll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there’s more than one path that will lead you to where you’re going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!”
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“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”
Source : John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah
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“Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.”
Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.
