Sport Dynamics Quotes

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

As skateboarding evolved, it evolved away from competition. Having a best-trick contest doesn't work.

I don't think baseball is ever going to be the fast-paced game that football or basketball is. It's never going to be constant action. That's never how the game is played.

Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.