Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

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.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.