Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

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.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.

Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses.

Very slowly using two fingers, Annabeth drew her dagger. Instead of dropping it, she tossed it as far as she could into the w

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers

Injustice can never be stood for.

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.