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“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
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“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
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“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
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“You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.”
Source : "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.
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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
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“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”
Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”
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“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”
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“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”
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“My name is Alex Riley and I've been signed to a personal services contract for The Miz.”
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“Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally.”
Source : "Impurrfect Coleman commentary as Birmingham go down". www.mirror.co.uk. May 25, 2011.