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.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

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

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.