Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

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

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

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