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You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.
Time is of the essence,
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season.
Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.
Like rollover minutes?
For an athlete, there's no time off ... until it's over.
Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.
Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.
I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
Iverson: Man look, I hear you ... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange ... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game ... the actual game, when it matters ... We're talking about practice ...
What are we out at the park for, except to win?
I'm watching a lot of the football.
The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.
Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.
You do what you can to help your team win, whether it's playing that many minutes or 24 or whatever is asked of you, you do. You prepare yourself to play as much as you're asked to play.
Brady was staring at me from across the table. Unmoving. Unblinking. Not speaking. It was like an old Western. The house was too quiet as I stared back at him. He was winning this contest. And I'd had no idea we were even in one to begin with. Break, kid. Break
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
It is a movement and a rest, you and I.
Hey, Audrey, shut the fuck up. We're trying to watch the game.
Idle time is the devil's play.
When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.
Relationships are forged in pauses
Winning and losing was suddenly elevated to be about things that had no score and no teams and no uniforms; just one player at a time dealing with his life, his own struggle, his own triumph and torment.
Football's all about 90 minutes
There weren't any time-outs, though. Not in life, and not in hockey.
I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.
The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't any more. It's the game that's exciting.
I like sitting down and watching games.
For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.
Everything needs a break.
I never did anything on game night, even though I recorded the games and could always watch them later, because those nights were sacrosanct, and if I gave up the one sacrosanct thing, where would I be and what would I have?
A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.
Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.
Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.
When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.
One night I'm going to have a big night scoring; some nights I'm going to have a big night doing other things. Just doing whatever it takes to win the ballgame, not necessarily sitting up here worrying about scoring 30 points.
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'
Sleeping is for quitters. #amwriting #amreading #amreviewing
I do pauses, pauses work for me
The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of what matters. The process, the pleasure, the grain of the game count too.
What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?
Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
We grab a quick few minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments.
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
attempting to block progress.
Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
adjourn for another beer. We
We're undefeated in regulation.
When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.
The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.
Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.
The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
It's the best feeling in the world . The game's on the line, and you're the guy in the spotlight.
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
The game honors toughness
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
Lights in the blackness. Waiting for the score. Putting on a face. Flirt a little more. That
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
I don't take breaks, I just break records
The umpire ... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Goal begins with "GO."
Our favorite holding period is forever.
The ball is round, the game is long.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.
Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.
If you understand football you make substitutions during the game, if you don't you make comments after it.
Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ...