Bill James Quotes

So who or what is to blame for baseball games that go on forever? Two oft-cited culprits are constant replay calls and batters who leave the box in between every pitch to adjust their gloves and helmet and shin guards and elbow pads and then knock the dirt off their cleats before working up their stride for the next at-bat.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.

Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.

People talk about the speed of the English game, but in Italy, referees blow their whistles very often, so you cannot build up speed. In England, referees wave play on, and so it becomes faster.

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

The big thing that Giannis brings to the game for us is pace, being able to get up and down the floor and play fast. We got to continue to do that and not lose momentum when he comes out of the game.

I'm trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.

As for Kaka, he is a superstar... someone who can change the tempo of the game as well as the team.

When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.

Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

You can only play one hole at a time.

I will read anything rather than work.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.