Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

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 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.

Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

I dwell on positive and beauty of life.

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.