England produces the best fat actors.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.