If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a sports-writer because I'd want a brain that had never been used.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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