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

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.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

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.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

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

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