George Vecsey Quotes

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.

It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.

Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.

Mr. Nixon … will, with time, be a landmark in the history of quiet, determined desperation.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe's best baseball writer when I was in high school.