Roger Kahn Quotes

• Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

  Roger Kahn

  Summer, Baseball, Dream

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• You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

  Roger Kahn

  Falling In Love, Team, May

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• 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

  Roger Kahn (1992). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

  Roger Kahn

  Courage, Cutting, Men

  Roger Kahn (2013). “The Boys of Summer”, p.17, Aurum Press Limited

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• 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, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

  Roger Kahn

  Song, Falling In Love, Team

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Football, Sex

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• 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

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• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Kidneys, Halls

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• Horse racing is animated roulette.

  Roger Kahn

  Money, Horse, Gambling

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• 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

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• 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

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• Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

  Roger Kahn

  Sports, Golf, Tennis

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• 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

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• 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

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

  Roger Kahn

  Funny, Cute, Smile

  Roger Kahn (2000). “Good Enough to Dream”, p.84, U of Nebraska Press

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