Roger Kahn - Man Quotes

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You may glory in a team triumphant, but you will 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 was a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

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.

Roger Kahn

Baseball skill relates inversely to age. The older a man gets, the better a ball player he was when young, according to the watery eye of memory.

Roger Kahn

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

Roger Kahn

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

Roger Kahn