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

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

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

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

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.