George Vecsey famous quotes

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
-- George Vecsey

#Sports #Baseball #Football

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.
-- George Vecsey

#Baseball #August #Peanut Butter

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
-- George Vecsey

#Baseball #Stories

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.
-- George Vecsey

#Art #Robins #Gorgeous

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.
-- George Vecsey

#Hockey #Healthy #Cups

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?
-- George Vecsey

#Stupid #People #Stupidity

Every championship, by definition, is historic.
-- George Vecsey

#Definitions #Championship #Historic

Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.
-- George Vecsey

#Softball #Baseball #Player

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.