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.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

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.