Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.