We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

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.

The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.

If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

Sometimes, less is more.