Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

These are the days that try man's heart.