Red Smith famous quotes

03-30-2025

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
-- Red Smith

#Baseball #Home #Men
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
-- Red Smith

#Football #Player #Cold
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

#Art #Reality #Fiction
It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
-- Red Smith

#Running #Men #Boys
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
-- Red Smith

#Yesterday #Games #Today
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

#Attention #Language #Grammar
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
-- Red Smith

#Writing #Typewriters #Veins
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
-- Red Smith

#Cooking #Cabbage #Scent
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
-- Red Smith

#Tongue #Habitat #Natural
Young men have visions, old men have dreams.
-- Red Smith

#Dream #Men #Vision
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
-- Red Smith

#Dying #Tricks #Bigs
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

#Sports #Years #Two
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

#Baseball #Texas #Firsts
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
-- Red Smith

#Baseball #Games #Mind
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
-- Red Smith

#Writing #Bricks #Bricklaying

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