Mike Greenberg > Quotes

“You can’t just close your eyes and hope everything turns out all right. That’s a fine strategy for jumping out of an airplane, but it’s no way to conduct your life. In order to get anywhere you must first know where it is you want to go. Then you can figure out how to get there.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“MAY I BE FILLED WITH LOVING-KINDNESS
MAY I BE WELL
MAY I BE PEACEFUL AND AT EASE
MAY I BE HAPPY”
― Mike Greenberg

“I've been struck by lightning several times. Three, to be exact: once in high school, once in college, the last time afterward. None of them was my wife, by the way. You don't marry the girl who strikes you like lightning, because that doesn't last forever and you never know what you might be left with when it wears away.”
― Mike Greenberg

“What makes life worth living is all the wonderful things that could happen to you.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“What makes life worth living is what is happening right now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“There is nothing more debilitating than regret, and no anger worse than that which is directed at yourself.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“differently”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“The Yankees handed out numbers based upon a player’s spot in the batting order, which is how Babe Ruth acquired the number 3. His teammate, Lou Gehrig, hit cleanup, and his number, 4, became the first ever retired by any team on July 4, 1939, the day he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“Thich Nhat Hanh writes that one of our biggest faults is to fail to celebrate not having a toothache. The idea goes something like this: We all know how painful and irritating it can be to have a toothache, and we all suffer when we do, but why is it we never take time to think how nice it is not to have a toothache?”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“All I have is right now. I have all that I want, and no one can promise me I’ll have it forever no matter what I do, so I’m going to live it, love it, treasure it, for every second I can, and whatever comes next I’m prepared for it.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“We, as a people,will leave only one mark on this planet long after our time, and that mark will be the sum total of all the decisions we make.”
― Mike Greenberg, My Father's Wives

“KILLER BEE IS made with two tablespoons of honey, orange juice, club soda, passion fruit juice, black pepper, lime, and a healthy portion of light rum. The first sip is an explosion. After that”
― Mike Greenberg, My Father's Wives

“You can’t have love in your life if you aren’t willing to suffer for it,”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“The legendary sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote perhaps the perfect response to that notion: “Yes, he is a credit to his race—the human race.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“was described to me as “emerald green,” but that is underselling: it was far richer than that, more vivid, a color so intense I could almost taste it. I could certainly feel it. You know a color has moved you when to see it is only the beginning of the experience.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“At their essence, sports lend themselves to the most good-natured debate you will ever encounter, because there is nothing in the world better than investing everything in something that means absolutely nothing”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“May I be filled with loving-kindness May I be well May I be peaceful and at ease May I be happy”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“The only permanent thing is impermanence. This was what I came up understand right then, right there, with the sun on my cheeks and the champagne on my lips. The notion that you could actually know what you want for the rest of your life is illogical and unreasonable. The best you can do is figure out what you want for lunch.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For

“Your heart doesn’t flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl’s when you aren’t fourteen anymore.”
― Mike Greenberg, All You Could Ask For