31 Quotes by Roger Kahn

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

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.

The only reason I'm running is because I feel Bob Barr is the wrong man for Georgia and the wrong man for our country.

Look at the national furor it caused. If baseball is losing its hold on the people, why is everybody having a nervous breakdown because Rocker said some dumb things? I think baseball still has a huge hold on this country.