Quotes by H. G. Bissinger - Page 1

I actually like football a great deal.
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I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.
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Desperately
Taller
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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Reporter
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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Unnecessary
Rare
Committing
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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Tired
Tale
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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Pet
Consistently
Dog
Person
Time Me Person
Actually
Only
Loves
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Safe
People Because Like
Medium
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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Exciting Things
Reporting
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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Baseball
Board
Inspirations
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Printed
Sacred
Cling
More Being Think
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Philadelphia
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Medical
Repetitive
Caused
Dangers
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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Criticize
Respond
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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
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Contact
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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Curiosity
Granted
Texas
Tiny
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Emotion
Little Bit
Prose
Purple
Overdo
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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Chemistry
Components
Emotion
Hunger
Teams
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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Athletics
Emotion
Exciting
Finite
Frame
Incredibly
Time Frame
Wonderful Thing
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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Banking
Firm
Investment
Syracuse
University
Wall
Degree
Roughly
Wall Street
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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College Football
Convincing
Higher
Higher Education
Academics
Presumably
Studying
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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New York City
Newspapers
Paper
Reader
Sacred
Family City New
Holding
Inveterate
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
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Academic
Be Prepared
Fees
Mockery
Prefer
Dumping
Enhancing
Programs
Mission
Subsidize
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Born
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Premature
Male
Weeks
Twin
Gerry
Hospital
Pound
Sons
Survive
Weighed
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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Air
Endless
Hot
Not Interested
Opinion
Sacred
Valuable
Adding
Ball
Interested
Counts
Either
Frankly
Thinks
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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Unusual
Daily
Editor
Editorial
Newspaper
Page
Penn
Weekly
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