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.

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.

Life is what you portrait it!

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

But he knew how to kiss a woman until she needed his kisses more than she needed to breathe. Until her bones melted. Until she gave him exactly what he wanted.

There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body.

Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.