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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

It was a lover and his lass, _x000D__x000D_With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,_x000D__x000D_That o'er the green corn-field did pass,_x000D__x000D_In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,_x000D__x000D_When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;_x000D__x000D_Sweet lovers love the spring.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

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