George Vecsey Quotations | Page 2

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

FIFA is a vuvuzela. It's in your ear, but you don't want to hear it, and then eventually it goes away.

Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

As my wife will attest, I do not shop casually.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.