Quotes by 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...”

“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jump...”

“Pique or policy. We would never know.”

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

“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...”

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

“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.”

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

“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”

“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jump...”

“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...”

“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.”

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

“At a point of life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.”

“In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.”

“One did not go to Ebbets Field for sociology. Exciting baseball was the attraction, and a wonder of the sociological Brooklyn Dodgers was the excitement of their play.”

“He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.”

“Unlike most, a ball player must confront two deaths. First, between the ages of thirty and forty he perishes as an athlete. Although he looks trim and feels vigorous and retains unusual coordinatio...”

“One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.”

“Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.”