Daniel

“It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

“Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete, and in that convergence, in that transference, is the oneness that the mystics talk about.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks about beauty, or grace, or the body. Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive stats and technical analysis, tribal and/or nationalist fervor, uniforms, mass noise, banners, chest-thumping, face-painting, etc.”
― David Foster Wallace, On Tennis: Five Essays