You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.