A biography for Richard Ben Cramerhasn’t been written yet.
“This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.”
“The first time I met Alex Rodriguez, he was in the fight of his life. He was the guy who was supposed to have everything - good looks, good health, good habits - all the talent in the world and most of the money.”
“DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he was the immigrant boy who made it big. Coming back from World War II, he had all the wealth and power that New York aspired to. When New York saw itself as the center of the world, he was its paragon of class.”
“He was J. DiMaggio, and that was his business. He always was served and hosted - he was America's guest. And I really I don't think we would have the athletes that we have today and the social system in which they live without DiMaggio and what he did.”
“It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.”
“When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.”
“After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.”
“We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.”
“We strove for more than 60 years to give Joe DiMaggio the hero's life. From his debut at Yankee Stadium in 1936 until his death in 1999, DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.”
“I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.”
“You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.”
“I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.”
“I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like?”
“I had every stress-related illness you can get.”
“When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.”
“If you're following candidates in a campaign, you get on their plane, and what they're generally doing is they're dividing the cost of that charter flight by the number of reporters they're carrying aboard. In effect, the press is buying them that campaign flight.”
“It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.”