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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football,

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. – John Leonard, New York Times, 2 November 1975

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There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. – Neville Cardus, A Fourth Innings with Cardus, 1981, referring to cricket

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The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. – Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985

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