John Feinstein Quotes

I believe you should do three things every single day of your life," he said. "One, you should laugh. Two, you should think. Pause and think about your life. And third, you should cry. Get yourself into a state of emotion where you shed a tear. If you do all three of those things - laugh, think, and cry - well, that's one heck of a day." Eight

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

He's the reason I have so few rules on my team. He told me not to make any rules because that way if a bad kid screws up you get rid of him. If a good kid screws up you do what you have to do and let it go at that. Rules just get you in trouble.

Never be proud of doing the right thing;

Hate can destroy you or it can fuel you. I knew I had to find a way for it to fuel me." Krzyzewski

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists,

intense than playing to collect a check.

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

You see," Bouton wrote, "you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." Truer words were never written.

I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.

Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns

They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.

so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't

(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.