Business as the ultimate sport 

Terrence Rafferty

Once the movie has hit the theaters, we get to follow its fortunes in the box-office charts, as if we were checking the standings

Thomas Keller, Chef

Being a chef is like playing a sport; it’s a very athletic thing to do. You know, 14 or 15 hours a day for

Harold Evans

McCormick’s biographer William T. Hutchinson writes: ‘Success to him did not mean the accumulation of money. In the many hundreds of his letters, profits

J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right. I’ll admit

Dave Liniger

Like a championship cyclist in the Tour de France, he aimed to put on an intimidating burst of speed over a difficult mountain clim

Harkins and Hollihan

Brokers in every region know the target. This is their battle cry. They have a goal in mind and they chase it like a

Jacques Barzun

White collar crime called for intellect: in every country one found bevies of top executives and leading politicians behind bars and others under indictment.

William Thackeray

But you see there’s no fun in winning a thing unless you play for it.

New Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, acknowledging his daughters in law at a news conference: ‘Both of my sons out-punted the coverage with their wives,