“Time played on the opposite team.”
“Time plays for the other team.”
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
“The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.”
“If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this”
“At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.”