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“My golf career was blessedly short. It lasted all of one class. "Hit that tiny ball? Really?" I shook my head as I studied…

— Joanna Campbell Slan

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other…

— Jim Bouton

“No doubt about it. The guy was huge. Not quite seven feet, but close. Almost to the ceiling. And he was wide. From shoulder…

— Lee Child

“He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.”

— Collette West

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I…

— Willie Mays

“The strikingly broad, almost athletically powerful shoulders unfortunately reflected the character of his playing too, for this Mr. McConnor was one of those self-obsessed…

— Stefan Zweig

“He’d played sports in high school, and then proved that a young man with the build of St. Francis of Assisi could play wide…

— Michael Lewis

“And I played football so I knocked a few heads around there, but nothing out of the ordinary. I played baseball too but that’s…

— C.C. Gibbs

“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

“by his lips. And now his abs. Luckily, I wouldn’t have to look at either while we played side by side. At the far…

— Nikki Jefford

“He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine—bulging biceps and triceps and a…

— Rick Riordan

“How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.”

— Nathan Englander