Al Arbour famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  • Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  • Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

  • You always catch the wrong players.

  • I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

  • Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

  • I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

  • This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

  • One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

  • It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

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