Quotes by H. G. Bissinger

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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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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

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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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I actually like football a great deal.

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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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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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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

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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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I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

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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...

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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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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

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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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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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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

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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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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 ...

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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

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