Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

You're going to miss an extra-point or two in this game because the goal posts are so close together (9 feet wide), but the block infuriated me more than the miss. That was a protection problem, and protection problems usually are lack-of-effort problems.

I have a whole museum almost. Baseball and basketball take up the bulk of it, and there's some football and a little bit of hockey.

I coached a little bit of everything, including football and basketball. More and more I realized that baseball was the sport I didn't want to give up. It's a passion. I love it.

This school's athletic programs, in particular, football, basketball and baseball are known nationwide. Basketball-wise it's because of him [Carey]. When you mention Garden City, people know where that is.