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.

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.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

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.

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

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.