The baseball player
Nobody comes to see a fellow because he’s a good outfielder. What he comes to do is hit. He’ll come out early in the batting cage and hit and hit and hit. He won’t shag flies, he won’t catch fungoes. It’s not important to him. There’s no status to catching a fly ball (369).
The hockey player
Among players, while we are playing we are very close. Some of the best clubs I’ve played with have this close intimacy—an intimacy modern man can hardly ever achieve (383).
The football coach
Everything we do is based on winning. I don’t care how hard you work or how organized you are, if you don’t win, what good is it? It’s down the drain. You can have a tremendous game plan, but if you lose the game, what good was the plan (388)?
I realize that they are all saying something different, but I think that it all comes back to the fact that professional sports are not the same as they were years ago. Do you agree with these quotes? Do you think that sports have become so driven by money and fame that the players don’t care about each other, or even the fans that they are playing for?
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