You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is? A sport!
In fact, in a football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.[En fait, dans un match de football, tout se complique du fait de la présence de l’équipe adverse.]
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
