Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.