I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

England produces the best fat actors.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Be comforted! If there are people who can't stand to be around you, just remember that darkness hates light and deceit hates truth.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

I don't need my name anywhere.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

Obviously I'm very confident, not only on the golf course, when I race. I've always backed myself. I'm a very confident sort of person.