I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.