I Don't Know. Sometimes I Try To

Baseball, Boxing, Handball - Sooner Or Later Every Game Gets Compared To Narrative, But Only In Football Are The Plays Perfectly Linear, Drawn Up With Letters, And Only In Football Is The Field Itself Lined Like A Sheet Of Notebook Paper.

Your Best Is Whatever You Can Do Comfortably Without Having A Breakdown.

The Greatest Players Use Anger As Fuel. Michael Jordan Played Every Night With Something Like Road Rage.

In Manhasset You Were Either Yankees Or Mets, Rich Or Poor, Sober Or Drunk...you Were 'gaelic' Or 'garlic," As One Schoolmate Told Me, And I Couldn't Admit, To Him Or Myself, That I Had Both Irish And Italian Ancestors.

While I Fear That We're Drawn To What Abandons Us, And To What Seems Most Likely To Abandon Us, In The End I Believe We're Defined By What Embraces Us.