--- title: "1 Summer Memories Quotes By Roger Kahn" description: "1 Summer Memories quotes by Roger Kahn. Plus more from Roger Kahn and more Summer Memories sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/roger-kahn-27578_baseball_why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we_2377550.jpg" --- > [“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jumping, leaping, we were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we-remember-because-we-were/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/roger-kahn-27578_baseball_why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we_2377550.jpg) ## More by Roger Kahn > [“Worse, Roger erupted into outbursts of uncontrollable rage, without apparent cause. In time I learned that this was one symptom of what therapists formerly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/worse-roger-erupted-into-outbursts-of-uncontrollable-rage-without/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [“Dear Dad: After twenty-two years in the amusement park, this roller coaster isn’t fun any more, so I’m getting off the ride. Roger”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/dear-dad-after-twenty-two-years-in-the-amusement-park-this-roller/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/football-is-violence-and-cold-weather-and-sex-and-college-rye/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/you-may-glory-in-a-team-triumphant-but-you-fall-in-love-with-a-team/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [“Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/poor-kid-i-thought-to-do-this-to-yourself-at-twenty-three-and-leave-a/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/football-is-violence-and-cold-weather-and-college-rye/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/robinson-did-not-merely-play-at-center-stage-he-was-center-stage-and/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/basketball-hockey-and-track-meets-are-action-heaped-upon-action/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/baseball-is-for-the-leisurely-afternoons-of-summer-and-for-the/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/you-may-glory-in-a-team-triumphant-but-you-fall-in-love-with-a-team-2/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/tennis-and-golf-are-best-played-not-watched/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/i-was-showing-early-symptoms-of-becoming-a-professional-baseball-man/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/dempsey-himself-said-you-only-spend-so-much-time-in-the-spotlight/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/no-other-sporting-event-can-compare-with-a-good-series-the-super-bowl/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) > [“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we-remember-because-we-were/) [Roger Kahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-kahn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/summer-memories/roger-kahn/#itemlist", "name": "1 Summer Memories Quotes By Roger Kahn", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. But more, we remember because we feel the ache of guilt and regret. While they were running, jumping, leaping, we were slouched behind typewriters, smoking and drinking, pretending to some mystic communion with men we didn't really know or like. Men from ghettos we didn't dare visit, or rural farms we passed at sixty miles an hour. Loving what they did on the field, we could forget how superior we felt towards them the rest of the time. By cheering them on we proved we had nothing to do with the injustices that kept their lives separate from ours. There's nothing sordid or false about the Boys of Summer. Only our memories smell like sweaty jockstraps.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger Kahn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-kahn/why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we-remember-because-we-were/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/roger-kahn-27578_baseball_why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we_2377550.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/roger-kahn-27578_baseball_why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we_2377550.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/roger-kahn-27578_baseball_why-do-we-remember-the-boys-of-summer-we_2377550.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? 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