Joe Posnanski Quotes

#1. Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

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#2. When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

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#3. I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

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#4. I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.

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#5. The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

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#6. There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

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#7. Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

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#8. Son, in this life, you don't ever walk by a red dress.

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#9. Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.

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#10. Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

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#11. When it comes to golf, Scottish people are famously reserved, undemonstrative, difficult to impress. Golf is like church in Scotland, church like golf.

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#12. When you live around a working-class environment, you see what sports means to people. You see that it's the escape over the weekend. you see how they build their lives around it. People sort of want to get away from their lives.

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