“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. ”