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. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
