24 Quotes by Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become

as a companion to the distraught, sort of a psychiatric nurse, just saying: 'You're OK. They're wrong.'

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.