The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. – Jim Murray
Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air. – Jim Murray
Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine. – Jim Murray
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. – A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazi
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. – Anne Frank