Red Smith Quotes

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

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

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

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.

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

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

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.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

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

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

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

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

My best girl is dead.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.