I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.

And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

Music I do just for me.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.