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You don't want to be lousy during the World Series. If you've got to be lousy, let it be June. And believe me, I was very lousy yesterday. I had nothing to say, and, by God, I said it.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. "Sportswriting's Poet Laureate," p. 63, Sport (March 1978).
Article by Harry Stein.)
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In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. "Red Smith on Politics," p. 94, Harper's Bazaar (January 1972).)
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Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. A personal recollection that originally appeared in No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman. The Red Smith Reader, "I'd Like to Be Called a Good Reporter," Random House (1982).)
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I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. Quoted in Ira Berkow's column, p. 18, The New York Times (January 16, 1982).)
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If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let's talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn't mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. "A Horse You Had to Like," The New York Times (May 20, 1947).)
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I've always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. A personal recollection that originally appeared in No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman. The Red Smith Reader, "I'd Like to Be Called a Good Reporter," Random House (1982).)
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In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them—Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.
(Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. A personal recollection that originally appeared in No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman. The Red Smith Reader, "I'd Like to Be Called a Good Reporter," Random House (1982).)
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