The Walrus Talks Play (Toronto 2015)

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

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“Pretending is not something only children do”

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“What do you mean, girls don’t box?”

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

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

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

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“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”

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“I learned more about the importance of play from the time I was third than any of the times I won medals”

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Full program featuring talks by Mary Spencer, Pico Iyer, Jason Edward Lewis, Dick Pound, Ken Dryden, Lynn Hughes, Bruce Kidd, Marnie McBean, and Mark Kingwell.

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