"Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens"

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"

"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam"

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law"

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf"

"The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone"