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

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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.