A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster …

- Mike Lupica

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

- Mike Lupica

There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's what I have to do.

- Mike Lupica

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

- Mike Lupica

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of …

- Mike Lupica

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

- Mike Lupica

Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Every…

- Mike Lupica