Quotes by David Halberstam

David Halberstam

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

He Man

Men

Staff

Always stay in with the outs.

Advice

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 the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

Baseball

Encouragement

Religious

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it

Jobs

Mean

Volleyball

During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them– for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity — went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.

College

War

Years

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 before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

Brave

Fear

Secret

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Practice

Race

Sports

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Great Faith

People

Resilience

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

America

Past

Political

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 wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Sin

Stories

World

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America

Awesome Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Book

Brave

Cameras

Careers

College

Conventional

Dangerous

Dangerous Things

Degrees

Dilemma

Doe

Encouragement

Events

Excellence

Facts

Fear

Focus

Football

Grandeur

Great Faith

He Man

Inspirational

Jobs

Lessons

Life

Love

Mark

Marketing

Mean

Men

Modesty

Morning

Motivation

Pain

Past

People

Political

Practice

Professional Sports

Quality

Race

Reflection

Religious

Resilience

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Quotes by David Halberstam

David Halberstam

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Always stay in with the outs.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don’t want to do it

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 before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

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 wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

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