Red Smith Quotes
- Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
- The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
- Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
- It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
- Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled…
- Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
- As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he…
- Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
- Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
- Young men have visions, old men have dreams.
- The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
- I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.