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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.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.
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I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.
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Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.
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This bloke was so pissed, he thought his vomit had come to life!
