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Red Smith Quotes

«It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players»
Author: Red Smith (Columnist) | About: Football, Sports | Keywords: football player, spectators
«I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.»
Author: Red Smith (Columnist) | Keywords: cabbage, cooking, scents
«The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.»
«My best girl is dead.»
Author: Red Smith (Columnist)
«He had splendid conformation-broad shoulders, white hair and erect carriage-and was beautifully turned out in an ensemble of rich brown. One was inclined to hope he would, in the end, award first prize to himself.»
«Look at him and you'd think he's 16. Talk to him and you think he's 26. Talk baseball with him, and you'd think he's 36.»
Author: Red Smith (Columnist)
«I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. ...When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others ... But slowly, by what process I have no idea, your own writing tends to crystallize, to take shape. Yet you've learned some moves from all these guys and they are somehow incorporated into your own style. Pretty soon you're not imitating any longer.»
Author: Red Smith (Columnist)