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Top 20 Red Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Red Smith Quote: “Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”

1. “Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.”

Red Smith Quote: “Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.”

2. “Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.”

Red Smith Quote: “Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

3. “Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit down at the typewriter, cut open a vein, and bleed.”

Red Smith Quote: “Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.”

4. “Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.”

Red Smith Quote: “Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.”

5. “Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.”

Red Smith Quote: “Today’s game is always different from yesterday’s game.”

6. “Today’s game is always different from yesterday’s game.”

Red Smith Quote: “It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.”

7. “It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.”

Red Smith Quote: “Young men have visions, old men have dreams.”

8. “Young men have visions, old men have dreams.”

Red Smith Quote: “Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I’ve grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”

9. “Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I’ve grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.”

Red Smith Quote: “It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.”

10. “It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.”

Red Smith Quote: “Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.”

11. “Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.”

Red Smith Quote: “Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.”

12. “Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.”

Red Smith Quote: “Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.”

13. “Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.”

Red Smith Quote: “It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.”

14. “It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.”

Red Smith Quote: “The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.”

15. “The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.”

Red Smith Quote: “The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.”

16. “The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.”

Red Smith Quote: “Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.”

17. “Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.”

Red Smith Quote: “For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.”

18. “For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football’s place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.”

Red Smith Quote: “I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.”

19. “I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.”

Red Smith Quote: “I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.”

20. “I think it’s the real world. The people we’re writing about in professional sports, they’re suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.”

Red Smith Quote: “In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.”

21. “In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.”

Red Smith Quote: “My best girl is dead.”

22. “My best girl is dead.”

Red Smith Quote: “I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.”

23. “I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.”

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