Roger Kahn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Roger Kahn

#Basketball #Summer #Baseball
You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.
-- Roger Kahn

#Falling In Love #Team #May
To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
-- Roger Kahn

#Courage #Cutting #Men
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
-- Roger Kahn

#Sports #Football #Sex
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.
-- Roger Kahn

#Strong #Destiny #Feet
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.
-- Roger Kahn

#Party #Events #Three
Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.
-- Roger Kahn

#Play #Stage #Center Stage
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.
-- Roger Kahn

#Clever #Boxing #Spotlight
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
-- Roger Kahn

#Sports #Golf #Tennis
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.
-- Roger Kahn

#Book #Writing #Pride
Horse racing is animated roulette.
-- Roger Kahn

#Money #Horse #Gambling
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
-- Roger Kahn

#Boxing #Kidneys #Halls
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
-- Roger Kahn

#Funny #Cute #Smile

You may also like:

Branch Rickey
Baseball player
Buzz Bissinger
Journalist
Carl Furillo
Baseball player
Duke Snider
Baseball player
Gay Talese
Author
Jack Dempsey
Professional Boxer
Jackie Robinson
Baseball player
Jim Bouton
Baseball player
Jim Brosnan
Baseball player
Jonathan Eig
Journalist
Lawrence Ritter
Writer
Malcolm X
Human rights activist
Pee Wee Reese
Baseball player
Pete Rose
Baseball player
Red Barber
Sports commentator
Red Smith
Sportswriter
Roger Angell
Essayist
Roland Lazenby
Sportswriter
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Walter O'Malley
Executive