Jason Stewart

“I had grown weary of federal agents and wiseguys, narcs and stings and brain-fried lowlifes, and all the seriousness and pretense we invest in the province of moral invalids.”
― James Lee Burke, A Morning for Flamingos

“Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“our entire species survived because we stuck together and cooperated, but on the other hand we developed because the strongest individuals always thrived at the expense of the weak. So we always end up arguing about where the boundaries should be drawn. How selfish are we allowed to be? How much are we obliged to care about each other?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“though winning was better, it lacked that brittle sublimity, that slight wisdom one took from a game in which you played with all your heart and your effort fell short. I taught my boys that losing well was a gift, but that winning well was the stuff of authentic manhood. Losing, I told them, was good for your sense of proportion.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides