Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There’s a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don’t like to talk about that unattractive stuff.
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I’m with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It’s how we expose police misconduct.
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
There comes a moment during a job interview when you’re still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
We don’t genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera’s picture on the other.
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don’t even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
I would never encourage my children to be athletes – first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
You’re just too poor to get rich.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you – period.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game – the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level – calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.