"I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press." ― Roger Kahn Topic(s): Sports More From Roger Kahn "Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye." "Tennis and golf are best played, not watched." More In Sports "Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let’s make it amateur again."― Carl Lewis "If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept."― James Collins "Sports is human life in microcosm."― Howard Cosell