Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.