Frank Deford Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming. – Frank Deford Arrived Quotes Athlete Quotes Baltimore Quotes Barger Quotes Biggest Quotes Bowler Quotes Colts Quotes Duckpin Quotes Football Quotes Franklin Quotes Games Quotes Homecoming Quotes Hopkins Quotes Johns Quotes Marshall Quotes Named Quotes Susquehanna Quotes Toots Quotes Town Quotes Woman Quotes I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load. Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.
Harold Bloom Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don’t see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. – Harold Bloom
Geeta Phogat Our akhara was very basic. It was just a little opening next to where the animals were tied. We had to first dig the soil with our bare hands, make it loose, before we could begin our session. I used to hate it. It also used to be either too hot or too cold. There were no mats, no mattresses, nothing. – Geeta Phogat
Kenya Barris I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there’s never really been a show that’s talked about what that’s like. – Kenya Barris
Manu Ginobili My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn’t like playing soccer that much. – Manu Ginobili
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