The Sporting Life
...Or "The Games We Play"

• You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. — Plato
• Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. —Lou Brock
• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. —Satchel Paige
• If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. —M.H. Alderson
• I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. —Earl Warren
• The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that. —Dan O'Brien
• Most games are lost, not won. —Casey Stengel
• The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. —Tom Canterbury
• When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. —Bill Shoemaker
• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. —Seneca
• The more I practice, the luckier I get. —Jerry Barber, about golf
• If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot. —Dean Smith