There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Always stay in with the outs.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.