“The batter’s box was a cage designed to crush his spirit.”

“The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”

“Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.”

“The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is .”

“He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.~C.S. Lewis~”

“Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.”