You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

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.

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.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

His gaze was like that of the moon, and had a dark side which he never showed to anybody.

Margaret Attwood: “I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race – the human race – and that we are all members of it.”Amen to that, I say. (Tom Bryson)

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.