When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. – George Raveling
I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. – Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. – Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports
