Andrew Ferguson quotes

“I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer.”
-- Andrew Ferguson

Source : Andrew Ferguson (2012). “Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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“Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.”
-- Andrew Ferguson

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“It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.”
-- Andrew Ferguson

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“Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.”
-- Andrew Ferguson

Source : "Scotty". www.weeklystandard.com. February 24, 2003.

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

“The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”

“Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.”

“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”

“The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

“Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.”

“For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.”

“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”