John Feinstein > Quotes

“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, Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

“shake it off;”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“Dick”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.”
― John Feinstein, Change-up: Mystery at the World Series

“Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.”
― John Feinstein, Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

“you should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing.” To”
― John Feinstein, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

“They had become unofficial mentors to the two aspiring teenage journalists,”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“J.P.”
― John Feinstein, Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics

“Goldsboro, North Carolina.”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“They walked through the hallways of the stadium, Dowling taking him on a tour of every locker room in the building.”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“Susan Carol had arrived at the stadium with Bobby Kelleher and Tamara Mearns”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“My dad”
― John Feinstein, Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics

“Never be proud of doing the right thing;”
― John Feinstein, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

“Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“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, Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

“Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“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, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

“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, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

“You don’t often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.”
― John Feinstein, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

“Matt Swierad has been broadcasting minor-league baseball for twenty-three years—ever since he graduated from Jacksonville University with a degree in history. He spent seven years in the Class A South Atlantic League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty-one at the time and was on the path he wanted to be to get to the major leagues. Seven years later, Swierad was still in Charlotte and beginning to wonder if the major leagues were just a pipe dream. Then came an unexpected—if temporary—opportunity. Jerry Coleman, who had been doing play-by-play for the San Diego Padres forever, was being inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Padres needed someone to fill in for the three games that Coleman would miss during Hall of Fame weekend and put out a notice that anyone interested in the three-day job could send in an application. Swierad almost didn’t bother. “I figured there was no chance, that someone who had an in with someone out there would probably get it,” he said. “My wife finally convinced me that I should at least give it a shot.” The Knights were in Buffalo on a long road trip and had gotten to the hotel early one morning to find that they couldn’t check into their rooms right away—a frequent occurrence of Triple-A travel. When they finally got in their rooms, Swierad walked over to a nearby food court to get some lunch.”
― John Feinstein, Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

“Journalists and the people they cover shouldn't be friends.”
― JOHN FEINSTEIN ROCCO MEDIATE

“Orrville dentist.”
― John Feinstein, Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

“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

“asshole,”
― John Feinstein, Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series

“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, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

“for,”
― John Feinstein, The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

“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, Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

“Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, and Chip.”
― John Feinstein, Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics

“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, Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball

“Years later, he and Jacklin designed a golf course together in Florida. They called it The Concession.”
― John Feinstein, Feherty: The Remarkably Funny and Tragic Journey of Golf's David Feherty