I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents. — Red Smith Cabbage 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 Bricklaying Copy Share Image
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith Baseball Copy Share Image
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith Cold 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 Art Copy Share Image
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. — Red Smith Cream 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… — Red Smith Convinced 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… — Red Smith Barriers 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… — Red Smith Attention Copy Share Image
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. — Red Smith Bases Copy Share Image
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a… — Red Smith Bigger Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.” — Red Smith Inspirational-writing Copy Share Image
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many… — Red Smith Admire Copy Share Image
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… — Red Smith Bricks Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Art Copy Share Image
“Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection.” — Red Smith Baseball Copy Share Image
“I called to Ash, still doing small laps and not paying attention. I jumped to my feet, still backing up and pointing… — Red Smith Paying Attention Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Add Copy Share Image
“Dying is no big deal; the least of us will manage it. Living is the trick.” — Red Smith Big deal Copy Share Image
