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

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

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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

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

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.