Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

I loved doing problems in school.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.