Quotes by Lapham, Lewis H.

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's >>

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's >>

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and t >>

Quotations about Sports

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports t >>

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then y >>

In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best ou >>

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

Lapham, Lewis H.