“I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.”

“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.”

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

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

“For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.”

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

“Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.”

“These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.”