Mike Lupica Quotes & Sayings

Don't give up till the buzzer sounds
-coach joey — Mike Lupica

A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game. — Mike Lupica

On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up. — Mike Lupica

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two. — Mike Lupica

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there.
Here, he was Michael. — Mike Lupica

The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most. — Mike Lupica

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do. — Mike Lupica

I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before? — Mike Lupica

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die. — Mike Lupica

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them? — Mike Lupica

Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books]. — Mike Lupica