Thomas Boswell Quotes About Sports

• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Illusion

• There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Entrepreneur, Excellence

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

• Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

  Thomas Boswell

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Football, New York

• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hockey

• El terrorismo expulsa toda actividad humana normal ante sí, definiendo la vida en sus propios términos enfermizos, si puede. Así, un partido de béisbol en una bochornosa noche tejana ante una gran multitud, con todo el mundo sintiéndose perfectamente seguro, es exactamente lo que odian los terroristas. Por eso es tan importante reanudar esos rituales atléticos -que simbolizan estabilidad, confianza y orden- tan pronto como sea razonablemente posible.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hate

• El béisbol ha poseído tradicionalmente una maravillosa falta de seriedad. El mejor jugador del juego, Babe Ruth, era un gordo rabelaisiano, y su entrenador más querido, Casey Stengel, hablaba sandeces. En este perezoso deporte, sólo el lanzador suda. Luego se toma tres días de descanso.

  Thomas Boswell

  Deportes, Béisbol, Hombres

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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