If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. An...
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence...
We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life. In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting...
I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half hour, or even six minutes, that will leave...
There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Everything you need is already inside.
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
I enjoy sports in person.