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

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.

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

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.

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.