John Feinstein Quotes

#1. so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't

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#2. I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

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#3. Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

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#4. They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists,

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#5. Never be proud of doing the right thing;

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#6. Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

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#7. THE "GAMES" BEGIN

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#8. He's the reason I have so few rules on my team. He told me not to make any rules because that way if a bad kid screws up you get rid of him. If a good kid screws up you do what you have to do and let it go at that. Rules just get you in trouble.

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#9. I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.

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#10. Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski

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#11. Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

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#12. Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns

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#13. She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

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#14. They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

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#15. You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

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#16. (He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

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#17. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

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#18. Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

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#19. You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.

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#20. Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

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#21. Cancer may rob me of my physical powers. But it cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. Those parts of me will live on forever." The

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#22. Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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#23. intense than playing to collect a check.

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