Feelings Quote by Edward Hirsch

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was…

— Reggie Watts

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to…

— Shel Silverstein

When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't…

— Shel Silverstein

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I was obsessed with the game somewhere deep inside me even as a young boy. I kind of knew that whatever journey I was…

— Angelos Postecoglou

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the…

— Nick Hornby

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did…

— Siri Hustvedt

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.

— John Riggins

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing,…

— Michael Morpurgo

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a…

— Jack Kerouac

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

— Prodigy