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Red Smith Quotes

My best girl is dead Picture Quote #1

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players Picture Quote #1

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract Picture Quote #1

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell Picture Quote #1

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents Picture Quote #1

Young men have visions, old men have dreams Picture Quote #1

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Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick Picture Quote #1

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds Picture Quote #1

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek Picture Quote #1

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick Picture Quote #1

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them Picture Quote #1

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy Picture Quote #1

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For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority Picture Quote #1

I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are Picture Quote #1

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I’ve grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world Picture Quote #1

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention Picture Quote #1

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop Picture Quote #1

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection Picture Quote #1

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My best girl is dead (Red Smith Quotes) It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players (Red Smith Quotes) As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract (Red Smith Quotes) The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell (Red Smith Quotes) I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents (Red Smith Quotes) Young men have visions, old men have dreams (Red Smith Quotes) Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick (Red Smith Quotes) Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds (Red Smith Quotes) The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek (Red Smith Quotes) Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick (Red Smith Quotes) I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them (Red Smith Quotes) It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy (Red Smith Quotes) For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority (Red Smith Quotes) I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are (Red Smith Quotes) Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I’ve grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world (Red Smith Quotes) Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention (Red Smith Quotes) Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop (Red Smith Quotes) Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection (Red Smith Quotes)