Nicholas Dawidoff > Quotes

“What I missed was what I missed every year when the season ended and abruptly the radio was quiet. I missed them.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball

“When you work all the time, the other aspects of your identity recede until they seem to have disappeared.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“Berg made himself unique so comparisons were impossible.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“One of the pleasures of following baseball is that every day its characters participate in an unfolding narrative of events in which there are heroes, clowns, and villains, moments of comedy and tragedy, and plenty of time during the pauses between pitches for daydreaming.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“Berg paid his way with stories.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, “I’m the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!”)”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“It was the gravity of the place. In football the facility was designed to be difficult to leave. Everything was there for you. A barber came in regularly. So did a dry cleaner and a car washer. Three meals a day were served. And best of all, there was the built-in coterie of brothers and fathers and uncles and a mutual sense of binding purpose.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I’d heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football

“The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

“Yeah, I know, and he can't hit in any of them.

Dave Harris, Senators' outfielder, when told that catcher Moe Berg spoke seven languages.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, Catcher Was A Spy, The

“Even underwater they could hear him laughing.”
― Nicholas Dawidoff, The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City