Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.