Thomas Boswell Quotes

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• I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and…
• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St.…
• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980…
• When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the…
• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen,…
• Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a…
• Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the…
• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager,…
• A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
• Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
• I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts…
• Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.
• Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and…
• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence…
• Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
• An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with…
• There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
• Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping…

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