Jerome Holtzman quotes

Jerome Holtzman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Losing is the great American sin.”
-- Jerome Holtzman

Source : Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

#Sports Quotes #Losing Quotes #Great American Quotes

“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”
“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”

Source : Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster
“Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.”
“Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.”
“I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.”
“Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”

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