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Sportswriter Inspirational Quotes (518)

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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
Mitch Albom
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.
Mitch Albom
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Kids chase the love that eludes them.
Mitch Albom
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Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
Mitch Albom
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
Mitch Albom
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Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.
Mitch Albom
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I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.
Bob Costas
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The one good thing about television is the money you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
Will McDonough
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Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.
Roger Kahn
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
Mitch Albom
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You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing it's writing.
Roger Kahn
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
Mitch Albom
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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough
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I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.
Frank Deford
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Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.
Katherine Dunn
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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.
Bob Costas
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Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.
Roger Angell
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
Mitch Albom
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I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.
Mitch Albom
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Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
Will McDonough
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom
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Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.
Will McDonough
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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
Mitch Albom
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