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# Ira Berkow

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Ira Berkow is an American sports reporter, columnist, and writer. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to the staff of The New York Times for their series How Race Is Lived in America.

##  Quotes by Ira Berkow

> [(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ira-berkow/dwight-gooden-his-fastball-crackling-his-curveball-dropping-as/)

Ira Berkow

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdb/ira-berkow-77798_air_dwight-gooden-his-fastball-crackling-his_187480.png)

> [The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ira-berkow/the-sadness-of-the-end-of-a-career-of-an-older-athlete-with-the/)

Ira Berkow

[Athlete](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/athlete/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/ira-berkow-77798_athlete_the-sadness-of-the-end-of-a-career-of-an_1389421.jpg)

> [All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ira-berkow/all-newspaper-writers-have-heard-that-the-stuff-they-compose-today/)

Ira Berkow

[Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/ira-berkow-77798_chance_all-newspaper-writers-have-heard-that-th_2051297.png)

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