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.

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.

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

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

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

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.