Brian Chiger

“We all knew there was a good deal of pointlessness to nearly all the meetings and in fact one meeting out of every three or four was nearly perfectly without gain or purpose but many meetings revealed the one thing that was necessary and so we attended them and afterward we thanked each other.”
― Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

“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

“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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