Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
Jacques BarzunIt is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
Jacques BarzunWhoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques BarzunIn teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques BarzunMachines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.
Jacques Barzun