I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.