When I say artist I don't mean in the narrow sense of the word--but the man who is building things--creating molding the earth--wh...ether it be the plains of the west--or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction--some with a brush--some with a shovel--some choose a pen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principal animals inhabiting the African jungle are moose, elks, and Knights of Pythias. Of course, you all know what a moose ...is, that's big game. The first day I shot two bucks. That was the biggest game we had.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pockets: What color is a giraffe? Dallas: Well, mostly yellow.... Pockets: And what's the color of a New York taxi cab? Dallas: Mostly yellow. Pockets: I drove a cab in Brooklyn. I just pretend it's rush hour in Flatbush and in I go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look, Buster. Don't you get over-stimulated with me. I'm the little gal that flew all the way from New York to this lousy place, t...his dark continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do no...t play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In baseball there are generalists, who keep their eye on the ball and see the big picture; football is full of special-duty charac...ters who are very limited in terms of their range but have depth. Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed around on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time--which amounts to several hours of real time--exhausts them. Baseball developed when we thought nature was a limitless reservoir and we would always live in abundance. Football reflects a different world view; everything has to be fought for, resources are precious, hostile people (guards, monster men) are everywhere and in such a world you have to grab what you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's just a game--baseball--an amusement, a marginal thing, not an art, not a consequential metaphor for life, not a public trust.... It may have broken Bart Giamatti's sentimental heart, but it will never break mine.... In its behind-the-scenes machinations as sport, baseball has developed unexpected ties to big-time professional wrestling, with that strange spectacle's buffoonish, self-important, overstuffed Steinbrennerish management types spouting gibberish about the best interests of this and such and the need for moral direction, all in counterpoise to sullenly big-muscled, bad-boy superstars nattering and snuffling about not getting any respect and not being in it for the dough, and being in it for the dough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that... the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.... If they're running and they don't lo...ok where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »