Occupation: Journalist Birth: April 10, 1934 Death: April 23, 2007
Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it.
These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things..
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be..
I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people..
Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibite….
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it..
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physicall….
The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable..
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular yo….
If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past..
QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?.
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world..
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of ….
A staff can be no better than the man it serves..
If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wron….
Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in….
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty..
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit b….
In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of le….
The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a….
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as ….