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Sportswriter Inspirational Quotes (518)

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I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great.
Joe Posnanski
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
Katherine Dunn
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A man is more than his failings.
Rick Reilly
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Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.
Roger Angell
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Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.
Mitch Albom
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Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
Katherine Dunn
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There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
Mitch Albom
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
Mitch Albom
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
Mitch Albom
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Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.
Mitch Albom
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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
Mitch Albom
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
Mitch Albom
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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
Mitch Albom
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You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.
Roger Kahn
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Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked.
Mary Carillo
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If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
Blackie Sherrod
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Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
Mitch Albom
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Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.
Roger Angell
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
Mitch Albom
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You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.
Mitch Albom
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(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.
Bob Costas
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Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.
Katherine Dunn
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
Mitch Albom
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
Daniel Okrent
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