Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

When you’re a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it’s the same game played over and over again. There’s nothing unique or marvelous. It’s not an...

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily...

Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It’s a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

I’m like a kid in a candy store right now. I’m excited to be running, which is funny, because a lot of guys dread coming to preseason and sprinting around and working your butt off,...

A dominant team in sports is exciting, and it gives everybody something to shoot for. This year maybe there’s a chance somebody could do that [in MLS].

Skating is joy.

I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I’m glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it’s good entertainment. If we’re lucky, it’ll...

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.

In sports, there are not a lot of times when you can walk away from the game on your own terms.

Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was...

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it’s still being made all over the place, all the time.

At least watching dirty movies can be kind of fascinating if they aren’t too horribly strange. And even the horribly strange ones are still more interesting than televised sports.

Owen Owens Field embodies the name of the team that calls it home. It’s Spartan to the core.

There’s something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that’s one thing about intellectuals, they’ve proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what’s going on. But on the other hand,...

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God’s timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

An “eye” on the vision is more important than an “I” on the vision.

Everything you need is already inside.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

You know what, that’s one of the greatest feats in all of sports, … You know what, it’s not that easy. Especially with all of those rookies they’ve played.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.

I cross country ski on conveyer belts covered with shaved ice. People trying to check out at the grocery store need to show more respect for serious athletes.

The roof was torn off the gym. God’s way of telling the jocks that they’d better remember who’s really charge.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.

The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.

If it were up to me maybe we?d have 35 sports, but we simply don?t have the finances to do it. In the foreseeable future I don?t see the finances to do it. No baseball...

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere...

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

I’d only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man. One time, when the tribal school traveled to Spokane to play this white...

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing,...

A lost is a lost no matter if you loose by 1 point or 40 points it’s still a lost.

As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that’s important…………..

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.

It’s not unusual. It’s part of sports. This happened to be the Super Bowl, so it has been magnified. But it is a very normal part of sports. Our officials are doing a great job....

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we’re talking about...

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that’s also the Ruthian drawback...

It gets you in amazing shape. Out of all the sports I’ve played, this might be the best workout. After class, we can hardly move.

I’ve often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It’s all numbers. It’s nothing. It’s not what we’re...

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say “I will,” or “I will not,” and...