Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.