Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It make...
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands...
Ever wonder why your cat jumps on the lap of the guest that doesn't like cats? It is because people who don't like cats will do things cats like during greetings. They squint their eyes, turn their heads and avoid direct contact with the cat. The cat...
I think La Liga is the best league in the world.
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.
Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my mann...
The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly alwa...
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too...
Yeti: [Referring to despondent Sully] Aw, poor guy. I understand. It's not easy being banished. Take my buddy Bigfoot. When he was banished he fashioned an enormous diaper out of poison ivy. Wore it on his head like a tiara. Called himself "King Itch...
If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.
There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
Most players in this league say they want consistency.
I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.
The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
