The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

Every time I go out onto a tennis court, I know what to expect.

The Department of Education should be disbanded and the resources either returned to the taxpayers or put into the schools.

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.