Quotes About Author

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

When you settle for "vanilla" objectives such as "increased clarity," or "more confidence," or "higher commitment" (which I call "human resources objectives" because they are so weak and nonmeasurable)

In saying this, of course, no offence is intended to the microbes, who after all have been around for a lot longer than us, and if the capitalist system is not overthrown, may yet have the last laugh.

Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.

The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.