It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else read more

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their read more

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was read more

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
(on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think read more

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all read more

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.

You get out in front -- you stay out in front.