Posnanski Quotes

#1. Couldn't you hypnotize her or something?"
"It doesn't work like that."
"I thought vampires were all sex gods with the ladies."
Cade looked at him. "What gave you that idea?"
"Uh ... late-night TV, mostly ... "
"Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with a cow?

Christopher Farnsworth

#2. People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ...

Pierre De Coubertin

#4. 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.

Joe Posnanski

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

Joe Posnanski

#6. 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.

Joe Posnanski

#7. Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love. Mattis Tannhouser

Tim Willocks

#8. 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.

Joe Posnanski

#9. A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#10. They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.

Thomas Keller

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

Joe Posnanski

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

Joe Posnanski

#13. I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

Nick Carter

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

Joe Posnanski

#15. . 'Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they're cops all the time, never mind it's a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.'
He tsks at me. 'Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?

Sarah Alderson

#16. 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?

Joe Posnanski

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

Joe Posnanski

#18. I think as artists we have an opportunity to shed light and share different stories and expose different realities and inspire people and give a different perspective.

Goapele

#19. 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.

Joe Posnanski

#20. One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

Vance Havner

#21. 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.

Joe Posnanski

#22. I sighed, a deep and heavy sigh. If only sighs could carry all my troubles away.

Denise Grover Swank

#23. A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

George Gershwin

#24. No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Woodrow Wilson

#25. 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.

Joe Posnanski

#26. No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Benjamin Harrison