I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Horse racing is animated roulette.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
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.