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

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.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

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

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

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.