Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism those petty good feelings pity and remorse?

I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

I had spindly little ankles and growing up in Canada I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball football basketball and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win fans were not only in a recession but trapped in a longstanding deeply entrenched sports depression.