J. R. Moehringer

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as…

— J. R. Moehringer

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

— J. R. Moehringer

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

— J. R. Moehringer

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told…

— J. R. Moehringer

I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's…

— J. R. Moehringer

I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from…

— J. R. Moehringer

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of…

— J. R. Moehringer

In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the…

— J. R. Moehringer

There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and…

— J. R. Moehringer

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

— J. R. Moehringer

If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it,…

— J. R. Moehringer

“His current theory is that Sutton lived three separate lives. The one he remembered, the one he told people about, the one…

— J. R. Moehringer

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle…

— J. R. Moehringer

Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of…

— J. R. Moehringer

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and…

— J. R. Moehringer

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've…

— J. R. Moehringer

Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

— J. R. Moehringer

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged…

— J. R. Moehringer

If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is…

— J. R. Moehringer

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

— J. R. Moehringer

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear,…

— J. R. Moehringer

“To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.”

— J. R. Moehringer

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

— J. R. Moehringer

Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas,…

— J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

— J. R. Moehringer