Roger Kahn Quotes

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed,

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

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.

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.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

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

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

Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn't fun any more, so I'm getting off the ride. Roger

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.