Quotes by Red Smith

Red Smith

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

Citizens

Thinking

World

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Baseball

Firsts

Texas

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

Baseball

Games

Mind

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Bigs

Dying

Tricks

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

Football

Reading

Sports

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.

Attention

Language

Made

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

Cabbage

Cooking

Scent

I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

Real

Sports

Writing

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

Entertainment

Ice Cream

Politics

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I’ve had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I’d imitate them–Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

Hero

Sports

Writing

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Art

Attention

Baseball

Bigs

Boys

Bricklaying

Bricks

Cabbage

Citizens

Cold

Cooking

Culture

Different

Dream

Dying

Entertainment

Feet

Fiction

Firsts

Football

Games

Girl

Habitat

Hero

Home

Ice Cream

Language

Made

Men

Mind

Natural

Patterns

Perfection

Player

Politics

Reading

Real

Reality

Rooms

Running

Scent

Sports

Texas

Thinking

Tongue

Tricks

Two

Typewriters

Vision

World

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Quotes by Red Smith

Red Smith

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

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

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

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

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.

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

I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

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

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