Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

- George Plimpton

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It do…

- George Plimpton

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

- George Plimpton

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

- George Plimpton

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

- George Plimpton

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

- George Plimpton

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him

- George Plimpton

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

- George Plimpton

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely…

- George Plimpton