Tony Kornheiser Quotes

#1. We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

Tony Kornheiser

#2. I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

Stephen Chbosky

#3. Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.

Tony Kornheiser

#4. I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching.

Anders Holm

#5. The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

Tony Kornheiser

#6. Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

Tony Kornheiser

#7. I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Tony Kornheiser

#8. Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.

Alcaeus

#9. Dreaming is a journey through wonder, surprise, and freedom.

Anthony Lawlor

#10. He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

Tony Kornheiser

#11. I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

Marian McPartland

#12. People say you're flirting with death but really you're flirting with life.

Lauren Hutton

#13. That's it! That's the list.

Tony Kornheiser

#14. Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there's no points involved [with the pole].

Tony Kornheiser

#15. An hour is not merely an hour; it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

#16. Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.

Tony Kornheiser

#17. To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

Benjamin Graham

#18. The time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to move into full swing, with its exalted claims about the emperor. Christians were calling Jesus God directly on the heels of the Romans calling the emperor God.

Bart D. Ehrman

#19. You have the power to kill, in the knife you hold
But for centuries my story will be told."
"A weapon you not need to be able to kill,
Just a fair knowledge of Achilles' heel

Dixy Gandhi

#20. The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.

Tony Kornheiser