Quotes from Roger Kahn

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

By applauding Robinson, a man did not feel that he was taking a stand on school integration, or on open housing. But for an instant he had accepted Robinson simply as a hometown ball player. To disregard color, even for an instant, is to step away from the old prejudices, the old hatred. That is not a path on which many double back.

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger

Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer. I would have liked that for you. I would have liked that very much.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.

It is too easy to lay griefs on the end of summer.

Particularly during one's youth, it is difficult to distinguish trivia from what is worthy.

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.