Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.
Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
I actually like football a great deal.
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.
I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
