31 Quotes by Roger Kahn

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Horse racing is animated roulette.

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.

You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.