I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them..

My best girl is dead..

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to m….

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick..

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never….

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game..

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patin….

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved..

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in t….

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek..

Young men have visions, old men have dreams..

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter..

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention..

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players..

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds..

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection..

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy..

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents..

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop..

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips..

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient ….