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Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.
— George Vecsey
Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.
— George Vecsey
Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.
— George Vecsey
I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.
— George Vecsey
Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'
— George Vecsey
Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.
— George Vecsey
For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
— George Vecsey
Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.
— George Vecsey
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
— George Vecsey
After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.
— Peter Vecsey
Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.
— George Vecsey
What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.
— George Vecsey
Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
— George Vecsey
I never worried about getting stale because the news and the people induce freshness every working hour.
— George Vecsey
FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.
— George Vecsey
No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
— George Vecsey
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
— George Vecsey
The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers.
— George Vecsey
I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.
— George Vecsey
For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
— George Vecsey
Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.
— George Vecsey
Every championship, by definition, is historic.
— George Vecsey
Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.
— George Vecsey
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
— George Vecsey
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.
— George Vecsey
As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.
— George Vecsey
Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.
— George Vecsey
There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.
— George Vecsey
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
— George Vecsey
Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.
— George Vecsey
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
— George Vecsey
Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.
— George Vecsey