Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Horse racing is animated roulette.