25 Quotes by Mike Lupica

I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.

There is nothing that has happened in the Ryder Cup lately to compare with the finish we got from Woods and Els.

They used to call the Astrodome the eighth wonder of the world, but for my money, it's Mike Tice still having his job as head coach of the Vikings.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books].