Quotes of: Sports-pages Keyword

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war. The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it mig...

Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Inside the opponent’s 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent’s 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11.* Regardless ...

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports and How Games Are Won

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits,...

True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit ...

The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns and re-runs of Rudy, wouldn't the indignation level be a whole lot higher? If sports, all sports, all levels, were shut down...

Leigh Montville

Enid: How come in all that time I was trying to get you a date, you never asked me out? Seymour: [surprised] You're a beautiful young girl, I couldn't imagine you'd have any interest in me except as an amusingly cranky eccentric curiosity. Enid: At l...

Ghost World

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Lover Unbound

K.I.S.S Keep. It. Simple. Stupid.

Page by Paige

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

John Maeda

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

Nicholas Negroponte

For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

Teddy Sears

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Ken Goldberg

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

Ken Thompson

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

L.J. deVet

We're all born an empty page.

Lauren DeStefano

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Jon Postel

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Robert Metcalfe

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

Viktor Yushchenko

Things can change so fast on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee