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Red Smith quotes: The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Red Smith quotes: Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Red Smith quotes: Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

Red Smith quotes: My best girl is dead.

My best girl is dead.

Red Smith quotes: Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Red Smith quotes: Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

Red Smith quotes: The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Red Smith quotes: Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

Red Smith quotes: Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Red Smith quotes: I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Red Smith quotes: Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

Red Smith quotes: Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

Red Smith quotes: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.

Red Smith quotes: I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Red Smith quotes: It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

Red Smith quotes: Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Red Smith quotes: A single ray of light piercing through the clouds and the canopy, making landfall on the wet, moist soil.

A single ray of light piercing through the clouds and the canopy, making landfall on the wet, moist soil.

Red Smith quotes: In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Red Smith quotes: Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Red Smith quotes: It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.