Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

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.

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.

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.

If supernatural aspect of the assignment is lost then the natural aspect manifests

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.