Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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

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.

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

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.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

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.