"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage"

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

"You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect"

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer"

"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball"

"Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true"