In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.

I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.