Football Quotes by Chad Harbach

11 Football quotes by Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach brings a writer’s eye to the field, and these eleven lines reveal how he frames the drama of football. The set is concise, yet each sentence feels like a well‑placed paragraph in a larger narrative.

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I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

Chad Harbach

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In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Chad Harbach

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In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Chad Harbach

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“There’s so much standing around,’ Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. ‘And pockets in the uniforms.”

Chad Harbach

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He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What…

Chad Harbach

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My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football…

Chad Harbach

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I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work…

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“That was what made the story so epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer mightily en route to his final triumph.…

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“Baseball, in its quiet way, was an extravagantly harrowing game. Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse--these were melee sports. You could make yourself useful…

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“Locker rooms, in Schwartz's experience, were always underground, like bunkers and bomb shelters. This was less a structural necessity than a symbolic…

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“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What…

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“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.”

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“He wished that college required you to use your body more, forced you to remember that life was lived in four dimensions.”

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“The girl-women scampered around a beach house in various states of preparative undress, wriggled into sundresses, shook out their hair…They possessed a veneer of…

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“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a novel,…

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“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him…

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For many years I didn't have health insurance.

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“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all…

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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to…

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“Ella was nineteen," Pella interrupted to say. She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men…

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“Neither had said so, but she could tell. Unless she was just paranoid, living in her head again, but you always lived in your…

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I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank…

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“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each…

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“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

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