John Fowles Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 31, 1926 - November 5, 2005
Birthday: March 31
Death: November 5
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
topic: Beautiful, Football, Baseball, Monotonous, Cricket Funny, Ball Games
