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

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.

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.

You may not need to try to change. Just wait and it will happen.

I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

I still believe that if we stand together with courage in our convictions and love for America, our best days are ahead of us.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.