Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

Reggae is my heart ♥ reggae is my soul

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.