Quotes About Mike Lupica

#1. I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Miguel

#2. A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

Mike Lupica

#3. If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

Mike Lupica

#4. Those whose eyes are open cannot see for they are blinded by the lust of all that is around them, and it is only when your eyes are closed that you may see that which is not visible

Judy Azar LeBlanc

#5. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be ... safe. At least she knows she's living.

Betty Smith

#6. The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.

Mike Lupica

#7. Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books].

Mike Lupica

#8. Only indiscriminate love can make us free.

Babatunde Olatunji

#9. Don't give up till the buzzer sounds
-coach joey

Mike Lupica

#10. On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

Mike Lupica

#11. Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*.
How crushing.
How illuminating.
How ... potentially very useful.

Julie Anne Long

#12. Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.
Here, he was Michael.

Mike Lupica

#13. Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#14. Maybe I did hurt him, but I don't think I could have hurt him much. He was one of the best-protected human beings who ever lives. People couldn't get at him because he just wasn't interested in people.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

Mike Lupica

#16. You want a better world ... ? Legalize pot right now ... end the deficit? Legalize pot right now ... biggest cash crop in America.

Bill Hicks

#17. It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

Mike Lupica

#18. There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

Mike Lupica

#19. What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

Michael Novak

#20. I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

Mike Lupica

#21. Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right?

Lisa Renee Jones