Bust Quote by 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 a teenager,…

— 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 me, and…

— 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 widely admired…

— 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 publishers and…

— J. R. Moehringer

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

— 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 aftertaste of…

— 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, you should…

— 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 that really…

— J. R. Moehringer

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

— J. R. Moehringer