22 Quotes by John Feinstein

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there’s no buts and no explanations … There’s no peace in ‘I’m sorry, but.’ You can’t find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, ‘I’m sorry,’ period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in ‘The Punch’ by John Feinstein

There are few things that would have caused me to turn against Duke and publicly rip it the way I did. Very few things.

Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL

Obviously, it was inexcusable. I just felt under the circumstances that if they didn't want me to come back, then I would have understood.

I think what George Mason has done is the greater accomplishment. Once Penn was by North Carolina, because of the other upsets they were playing teams that were comparable to them and teams they knew they could beat.