Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

The main thing is healthy eating exercise which I do for special events like if it's Sports Illustrated or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

There was endless action - not just football but sailboats tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

The integrity of the game is everything.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I always turn to the sports pages first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

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

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field the only thing to do was keep swinging.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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

If winning isn't everything why do they keep score?

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.