At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
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