Sports Writer Quotes

The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions

Margaret Hughes

I had devoted too much of my life to this utterly irrational game. I would chuck the whole thing and take to Strindberg for amusement.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

Stanley Ketchel was twenty-four years old when he was fatally shot in the back by the common-law husband of the lady who was cooking his breakfast.

John Lardner (sports writer)

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Michael Bamberger

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

Richard Ballantine