“I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.”

“He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.”

“I may be surprised. But I don't think I will be.”

“Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.”

“I’m going to play,’ says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. ‘A pair of these lads can pump for me.’ ‘Is this a time for playing?’ asks Jean Baptiste. Then, ‘You are right. You have never been more so.”

“In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.”

“I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to killsomeone, I can do something about it.”