"No male animal ever looked more like a big league ball player than Richard Lee Stuart and no character out of Ring Lardner ever sounded more like a busher than the same Dick Stuart in some of the statements attributed to him on the sports pages. When he came to training camp with the Pirates in 1957 he was promptly put away as an eccentric—partly because he had hit 66 home runs for Lincoln, Neb. the preceding summer, which is not normal behavior for anybody; partly because his gift for reticence was as undeveloped as his skill in the outfield; partly because of his undisguised loathing for gloves and all other appurtenances of defensive baseball."

"God, our loving Creator, created two sexes. So, femininity and masculinity are linked to the design of God. You see this in a good marriage; each partner anticipates the other’s needs, and appreciates…"

"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a …"

"Other sports can take a cue from cricket too. A generation ago, if anybody had suggested that a player from Ranchi would lead India one day, he would have been laughed at."

"The crucial question...what is NATO for? ...From the beginning.. we had drilled into our heads that the purpose of NATO was to defend us from the Russian hordes... OK, 1991, no more Russian hordes. Th…"