Roger Kahn Quotations

The only reason I'm running is because I feel Bob Barr is the wrong man for Georgia and the wrong man for our country.

Look at the national furor it caused. If baseball is losing its hold on the people, why is everybody having a nervous breakdown because Rocker said some dumb things? I think baseball still has a huge hold on this country.

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

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

So this is the first book I've written with a title supplied by a major league ballplayer,

Aware, but unself-conscious, Reese and Robinson came to personify integration. If a man didn't like what they personified, why, he better not play for the Dodgers.

A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.

They lost, and they lost in unusual ways.

I covered a team that no longer exists in a demolished ballpark for a newspaper that is dead,

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

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.

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

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

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

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

Horse racing is animated roulette.

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.

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.

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

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

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

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.