Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.