“Sport is governed by rules agreed upon by the participants. If you don’t like the rules you are free not to participate”

“Pretending is not something only children do”

“What do you mean, girls don’t box?”

“We could see games—the game form—as the form that underlies contemporary culture”

“You win a few, you lose a few, but the ones that are rained out hurt the most”

“Canada changes; play changes; we find new ways to play”

“That seemed to be the state of modern Japan: halfway between China and North America, not sure how much to follow Marshall McLuhan and how much Confucius”