35 Quotes by Red Smith

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.