If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting..

Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content....But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box - I don't let the big gu….

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, th….

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch..

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time..

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer..

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh….

I have always wanted to be liked and respected..

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a less….

Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to las….

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-estee….

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game..

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel ….

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet no….

There's an energy that I got inspired by from practicing a lot of sports. There's a philosophy or some sort of courage and bravery with sports that I….

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat..

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coac….