“It was a wonderful, chaotic universe of clashing colors, temperaments and emotions, of brave deeds performed sometimes against odds seemingly insuperable, mixed with mean and shameful acts of pure skullduggery, cheapness, snide tricks, filth and greed, moments of sheer sweet courage and magnificence when the flame of the human spirit and the will to triumph burned so brightly that it choked your throat and blinded your eyes to be watching it, and moments, too, of such villainy, cowardice and depravity, of such rapaciousness and malice that you felt hot and ashamed even to find yourself reporting it.”
Paul Gallico
Describing his time as a sportswriter.