Horse racing is animated roulette.
To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.