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

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.

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.

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