Brian Chiger

“As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.”
― L. Jon Wertheim

“One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.”
― Joshua Ferris

“Inside the opponent’s 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent’s 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11.* Regardless of field position, on anything less than fourth and five, teams are always better off going for it.”
― L. Jon Wertheim, Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports and How Games Are Won

“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays