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.

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

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

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

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