18+ George Plimpton Quotes On Sports, My League And Jungle

George Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, and editor. He is best known for his unique style of participatory journalism, in which he would become personally involved in the events he wrote about. He wrote for publications such as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and The New Yorker, and was the founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review. Following is our collection on famous quotes by George Plimpton on life, leadership, sports.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves. — George Plimpton

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. — George Plimpton

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you. — George Plimpton

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. — George Plimpton

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — George Plimpton

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. — George Plimpton

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. — George Plimpton

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things. — George Plimpton

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me. — George Plimpton

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book. — George Plimpton

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. — George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation. — George Plimpton

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life — George Plimpton

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action. — George Plimpton

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. — George Plimpton

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him — George Plimpton

Life Lessons by George Plimpton

1. George Plimpton taught us the importance of trying new things and pushing boundaries. He demonstrated that it is possible to gain a deeper understanding of something by experiencing it firsthand. He also showed us that it is possible to make a career out of pursuing one's passions and interests.