| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54454 |
| QUOTATION: | I’ve always had the notion that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905–1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. A personal recollection that originally appeared in No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman. The Red Smith Reader, “I’d Like to Be Called a Good Reporter,” Random House (1982). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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