There’s a great quote
There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.’ David Halberstam
David Halberstam
Few sports has as
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. David Halberstam
With the marketing pressures
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. David Halberstam
The byline is a
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 profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of … Read more
No publisher in America
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 Otis Chandler did. David Halberstam
Sometimes the best virtue
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. David Halberstam
What looked safe was
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world. David Halberstam
In team sports the
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 letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of … Read more
Nixon, who spent much
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. David Halberstam
Fear was the terrible
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. David Halberstam