Roger Kahn

“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.”

“Horse racing is animated roulette.”

“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”

“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.”

“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.”