Quotes from Mike Greenberg

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

You can't just close your eyes and hope everything turns out all right. That's a fine strategy for jumping out of an airplane, but it's no way to conduct your life. In order to get anywhere you must first know where it is you want to go. Then you can figure out how to get there.

What makes life worth living is all the wonderful things that could happen to you.

I've been struck by lightning several times. Three, to be exact: once in high school, once in college, the last time afterward. None of them was my wife, by the way. You don't marry the girl who strikes you like lightning, because that doesn't last forever and you never know what you might be left with when it wears away.

There is nothing more debilitating than regret, and no anger worse than that which is directed at yourself.

What makes life worth living is what is happening right now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now.

Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

was described to me as "emerald green," but that is underselling: it was far richer than that, more vivid, a color so intense I could almost taste it. I could certainly feel it. You know a color has moved you when to see it is only the beginning of the experience.

All I have is right now. I have all that I want, and no one can promise me I'll have it forever no matter what I do, so I'm going to live it, love it, treasure it, for every second I can, and whatever comes next I'm prepared for it.

The only permanent thing is impermanence. This was what I came up understand right then, right there, with the sun on my cheeks and the champagne on my lips. The notion that you could actually know what you want for the rest of your life is illogical and unreasonable. The best you can do is figure out what you want for lunch.

You can't have love in your life if you aren't willing to suffer for it

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At their essence, sports lend themselves to the most good-natured debate you will ever encounter, because there is nothing in the world better than investing everything in something that means absolutely nothing

We, as a people,will leave only one mark on this planet long after our time, and that mark will be the sum total of all the decisions we make.