Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

He was planning to rape me -""Why would he ever -""Because he knew he'd get away with it.

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

Every man heals himself.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.