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.

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

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

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.

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

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