Roger Kahn Quotes

#1. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

#2. Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

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#3. To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

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#4. Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed,

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#5. Horse racing is animated roulette.

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#6. Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

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#7. Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

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#8. You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

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#9. I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

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#10. Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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#11. Pique or policy. We would never know.

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#12. Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer. I would have liked that for you. I would have liked that very much.

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#13. No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

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#14. Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger

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#15. Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

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#16. Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

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#17. It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Roger Kahn