Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air. – Jim Murray
The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. – Jim Murray
Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that. – Jim Murray
Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine. – Jim Murray
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White