J. R. Moehringer Quotes

While I Was Busy Hating Vegas, And Hiding From Vegas, A Funny Thing Happened. I Grew To Love Vegas.

It Takes Just As Many Men To Build A Sturdy Man, Son, As It Does To Build A Tower. You Will Look Back On This Time And Remember Remarkably Little Of It, Excpt The Extent To Which I Tried Or Did Not Try.

History Is The Narrative Of People Searching For A Place To Go.

Baseball, Boxing, Handball - Sooner Or Later Every Game Gets Compared To Narrative, But Only In Football Are The Plays Perfectly Linear, Drawn Up With Letters, And Only In Football Is The Field Itself Lined Like A Sheet Of Notebook Paper.

The Greatest Players Use Anger As Fuel. Michael Jordan Played Every Night With Something Like Road Rage.

In Manhasset You Were Either Yankees Or Mets, Rich Or Poor, Sober Or Drunk...you Were 'gaelic' Or 'garlic," As One Schoolmate Told Me, And I Couldn't Admit, To Him Or Myself, That I Had Both Irish And Italian Ancestors.

A Book Is The Only Real Escape From This Fallen World. Aside From Death.

Of Course Many Bars In Manhasset, Like Bars Everywhere, Were Nasty Places, Full Of Pickled People Marinating In Regret.

Some Of Football's Gaudiest Displays Of Manliness Are Purely Aesthetic. It's Not What Players Do, It's How They Look Doing It.

If Only Ed Fleming Had A Mother Who Gave Such Sound Advice. The Manager Of Wazoo's, A Downtown Denver Restaurant, Fleming Is A Csu Alum Who Has Been Darned Giddy About The Rams' Recent Success. So Giddy That He Donned A Necklace Made Of Pez Candies, A Red Blazer - And Nothing Else. A Few People Gaped (some Actually Set Aside Their Beers), But Most Ignored Fleming As He Strutted Like A Red-blazered Rooster, Demanding That All Hail The Mighty Naked Beer King.

Long Before It Legally Served Me, The Bar Saved Me. It Restored My Faith When I Was A Boy, Tended Me As A Teenager, And When I Was A Young Man The Bar Embraced Me.

I Don't Know. Sometimes I Try To Say What's On My Mind And It Comes Out Sounding Like I Ate A Dictionary And I'm Shitting Pages. Sorry