Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.