Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument [it later was made a national park], my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.