Dave Anderson Quotes

I'm a big yachting fan.

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

If I see LeBron walking down the street, it's not going to be no fistfight. I've got a lot of respect for him.

My wife's an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, 'We have the boat, do as you wish.' I'll let her run the show.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

He was J. DiMaggio, and that was his business. He always was served and hosted - he was America's guest. And I really I don't think we would have the athletes that we have today and the social system in which they live without DiMaggio and what he did.

We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

People think of DiMaggio as the exemplar of a 'golden age,' and in some ways, he was. But in the most fundamental ways, he was really the first modern athletic superstar because, number one, he ushered in the era of big money; and number two, he never did anything except that - he never really took another job in another industry.

I looked up to cricket players such as Imran Khan.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.

I'm not saying I'm anywhere near the David Beckham league, but because I played well and Moliwood and probably the hair and everything, I did start to get recognized more and more.

Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.