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
Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that. – 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