Busy Quote by Mitch Albom

“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

“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really…

— Roxane Gay

“I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the…

— Harold Brodkey

“As a human, I'd never been best at anything... Obviously I could be counted out of anything athletic. Not artistic or musical, no particular…

— Stephenie Meyer

“He cared nothing for art, music and books. He had no hobbies or diversions, not even a passing interest in gambling and the games…

— John R. O'Donnell

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

— Steven Pressfield

“...when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I don't get or like human interest. Back before the Plague, it had ruined all sorts of stuff. The Olympics for one. Back when…

— John Ringo

“It just wasn't for me, and anyway, those people were a lot more far gone than I was. More in my father's league than…

— Wally Lamb

“It was worth it to try, and risk failing, because every day that I showed up to do the work, I proved to myself…

— Hillary Allen

“I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be.…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.”

— Frank Rich