Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

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

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

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

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.