John Feinstein Quotes & Sayings

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

Cancer may rob me of my physical powers. But it cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. Those parts of me will live on forever." The — John Feinstein

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

Goldsboro, North Carolina. — John Feinstein

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. — John Feinstein

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. — John Feinstein

THE "GAMES" BEGIN — John Feinstein

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. — John Feinstein

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot. — John Feinstein

intense than playing to collect a check. — John Feinstein

Early in the game, when it was still close, a couple of calls had gone against Carolina. Some of the students had started a profane chant. It didn't last very long, because Smith walked straight to the scorer's table, took the PA microphone, pointed in the direction of the students, and said, "Stop. Now. We don't do that here. We win with class at Carolina." They stopped. Instantly. When — John Feinstein

The term in baseball nowadays is a "walk-off home run." It didn't exist until Kirk Gibson hit his famous pinch-hit home run off Dennis Eckersley in game one of the 1988 World Series and Eckersley referred to it as "a walk-off," meaning, quite simply, that when someone does what Gibson did to him in that game, there's nothing left to do except walk off the mound into the dugout and then into the clubhouse. — John Feinstein

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first. — John Feinstein

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

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. — John Feinstein

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? — John Feinstein

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. — John Feinstein

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

Never be proud of doing the right thing; — John Feinstein

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

Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas. — John Feinstein

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 — John Feinstein

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

(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. — John Feinstein

You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time. — John Feinstein

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 — John Feinstein