Roger Kahn

“At a certain moment, the world is forever changed.”

“Baseball is a sport of balance.”

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.”

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a ride!'”

“Nothing is as sullen as a baseball team in defeat.”

“It is a press, certainly, but a press from which strict freedom of the press is withheld.”

“I think the sense of passing time is a very American one.”

“He was the strangest of all our national sports idols.”

“A book is a way of talking to people.”

“The seasons of a man's life are apt to be confusing.”

“The boys of summer in their ruin.”