Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

Science is a careful investigation.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

No rose without a thorn.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.