Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet.

Elegance is a personality.

I thought one should have the attitude of 'What do you care what other people think!'

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.