Baseball Quote by Frank Rich

“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and…

— E.M. Forster

“Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply…

— Francine Pascal

“...junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”

— David Foster Wallace

“I can do what Olympians couldn’t do. Of course they couldn’t do it because they were infants when I picked a moment in time…

— Jarod Kintz

“I'm an artist not an athlete.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”

— John Green

“Of course they’re going to make fun of you. They’re middle-school boys raised in a highly competitive, testosterone-fueled environment. That’s how they psych each other up.”…

— Francesca Zappia

“My role-options in life and career, I realized, were not limited to Businessman, Athlete, and Boneheaded Patriot.”

— Steven Pressfield

“The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.”

— J.C. McKeown

“Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“I was going to Homecoming with the one person in this school who made my skin crawl, I was getting attention from a gorgeous,…

— Penelope Douglas

“But everyone’s an athlete, he said. If you have a body, you’re an athlete.”

— Phil Knight