Jack Hurley

"The only good novel about a fighter I've ever read," said Ernest Hemingway when the book was first published in 1958. Long out of print, W.C. Heinz's The Professional has been reissued (Arbor House, $8.95), and a...

•John McKenna, VMI football coach who quit to become assistant athletic director at Georgia Tech, on why he would not return to coaching: "I wouldn't go through the business of recruiting again, of fawning on...

•Mike Ditka, Chicago Bear tight end, on Coach George Halas: "He tosses nickels around like manhole covers."

•Jack Hurley, fight manager: "I've had more operations than any human being alive. I had 27 sinus operations, and now they say you shouldn't have any. That's how they found out."