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Mike Greenberg Quotes

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

Mike Greenberg
Miracle, Tiny, Life Is
Mike Greenberg (2006). “Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad”, p.75, Villard

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

Mike Greenberg
Miracle, Tiny, Life Is
Mike Greenberg (2006). “Why My Wife Thinks I'm an Idiot: The Life and Times of a Sportscaster Dad”, p.75, Villard

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Mike Greenberg
Travel, Home, Mexican

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

Mike Greenberg
New York, Book, Writing

It was the first thing I learned when I started. An old boss said to me, 'Your job is to reflect interest, not to create it.' And what I've taken from that is, if you're not talking about things people are interested in, then they're going to find someone who is. It's not any more complicated than that. But if you forget it, you won't have a show for very long.

Mike Greenberg
Jobs, Taken, Talking

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Mike Greenberg
Golf, Frustration, Games

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

Mike Greenberg
Sports, Memories, Kids

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Mike Greenberg
Trying, Desert, Providence

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

Mike Greenberg
Sports, Country, Growing Up

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Mike Greenberg
Admire, Contemporary

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

Mike Greenberg
Honor, Age, Heidi

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Mike Greenberg
Golf, Years, Games

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