Jane Leavy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.”

“There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.”

“The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.”

“Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.”

“For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.”

“In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.”

“Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.”

“By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.”

“In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.”

“Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.”