“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that...”

“Pique or policy. We would never know.”

“I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.”

“Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.”

“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.”

“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. ”

“Sometimes a strikeout means that the sluggers girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstops baby daughter has a pain in her head that wont go...”

“Youre not going to always hit a home run in life. Youre going to strike out! Youre going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. Theyre afraid to ev...”

“He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.”

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

“Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

“Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.”

“To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon.”

“When you're in a weak position, getting the best deal possible is a victory.”