... proud though I may be of my profession, it never occurred to me that it was meant to be a working majority, ... That more than half of young men in TV would want to cover sports has the same ring to it as if we learned more than half the males in medical school wanted to concentrate on cosmetic surgery. |
[One] brought himself up by his bootstraps ... the other was born to comfort, a college man at a time when nobody went to college. Each saw in the other the thing he wanted to be. |
An American Summer. |
And that, in turn, has been superseded by, 'In your face.' |
At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire, ... Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. |
At the end of the day it was a guy from Nepal and a guy from New Zealand who conquered the world's highest peak for the British Empire. Bannister's feat a year later meant as much to the nation if not more. An Englishman had finally got to the top of the mountain. |
Everybody loves sports. It's awfully hard to be critical of these athletes -- they're young, they're strong, they're beautiful. You want to celebrate these guys. |
Gamesmanship has come to replace sportsmanship all too often, |
He was the first prominent college player ... the first star to be associated with college, and in that sense he made baseball acceptable, |
I do wish we wouldn't pander to the same audience over and over again, |
I think everything is in flux right now. |
I think really that if they can get back to playing games by the Super Bowl, which is when an awful lot of people turn and look at basketball for the first time, if they can do that, I don't think there will be any damage whatsoever. |
Instead, it's, 'Let's do Bill Parcells again.' |
It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket. |
It really surprises people, and I understand why, but that was probably the easiest book I ever wrote, because it was simple narrative, |