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

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

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.

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.