May 2012
1 post
April 2012
4 posts
“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second-best time?...”
– Old proverb via Why Trees Matter
Soccer Players are Smarter →
Soccer players have been shown to have superior executive functions, the brain processes responsible for planning and abstract thinking.
March 2012
3 posts
“Hope is the thing with feathers”
– Emily Dickinson
“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side,...”
– St. Augustine
February 2012
1 post
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
6 posts
“the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important...”
– Thoreau via
“Absurdly, I haven’t yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful...”
– Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
“I don’t have no sports car
And I don’t even care to have one
I can walk anytime...”
– Bob Dylan Bob Dylan’s Blues
“Only dead fish follow the stream.”
– Finnish expression
November 2011
3 posts
“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends....”
– Henry David Thoreau
A Newspaper For The Twitter Age: The Size Of A... →
October 2011
5 posts
“One of the great things about sport is its cruel clarity; there is no such...”
– Nick Hornby Fever Pitch
“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s...”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
3 posts
A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy →
August 2011
4 posts
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Thoreau
“… don’t try to be cool or smooth or whatever; just be honest and take a...”
– Tin Cup via
“One never notices what has been one; done can only see what remains to be done.”
– Marie Curie
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
6 posts
“I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records...”
– Earl Warren
“El futbol et torna el que li dónes”
– The football returns you what you give it.
May 2011
6 posts
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A dog’s got personality, personality goes a long way”
– Pulp Fiction
April 2011
4 posts
“If it’s going to be, it’s down to me.”
– Arsenal saying
