56 Pete Hamill Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pete Hamill

American Journalist

Born: Jun 24, 1935

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All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. Pete Hamill

Best Good Sports Locker Locker Room Know Loser Reporters Stories Room

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. Pete Hamill

Life First Background Shaped His Years Any Artist Her

I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York. Pete Hamill

You Think President States Run Running Tabloid Had Between New Course York New York Being Choose United United States

You can't edit yesterday's paper. Pete Hamill

You Yesterday Paper Edit

I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm. Pete Hamill

Hate Wake Up Without Sound Wake Up Alarm

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist. Pete Hamill

Imagination Mafia Because Exist Exists American Want

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh. Pete Hamill

Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected. Pete Hamill

Independence Nationalism Respected Must More Marxism Powerful Powerful Force Self-Determination Force Understood Than Taught Far Us Vietnam Should Engines

The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day. Pete Hamill

Day You Mornings Nap End Up Thing Two

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect? Pete Hamill

Men Would About Perfect Chaucer Written Were

Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture. Pete Hamill

Culture Tough Before Manly Way Several Slowly Guy Tough Guy Remaining Tender Tenderness Allow He Generations Performance Sinatra Him Passed Exist Role American Did While Popular Popular Culture Found

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. Pete Hamill

Politics Anger Powerful Powerful Force Most Most Powerful Force American Nostalgia American Politics

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. Pete Hamill

Women Feeling Country Politicians Else Football Football Players Disasters Perhaps Another Diamonds Texas Than Where Bigger Place Anywhere Anywhere Else Skies Really Fortunes Growing Players

I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker. Pete Hamill

Other Those Cities City Born New Always Dublin Mexico Mexico City York Yorker New York New York City New Yorker Rome Places Lived

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. Pete Hamill

Ambition Draw Kid Cartoonist Could Liked Also Comics Wanted Newspaper

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible. Pete Hamill

History People Too Many People Past Too Visible City Outrageous Take Primary New Still York Taught New York Where Granted Reason Many

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people. Pete Hamill

Depression People Mother Father Mother And Father Everybody Out Immigrants Brooklyn Born Remarkable Knew Came Were Up Ireland Who Growing Growing Up

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that. Pete Hamill

Father Job Lost Waterfront Kick Broke Immigrants He Got His Lot Off Irish Leg Get Which Soccer Playing Set

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help. Pete Hamill

Family You Yourself First Other Everything Easy Habit Tend Particularly Makes Begin American Pattern Help Large Large Family Oldest Reject

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was. Pete Hamill

Journalist Without Been Being Novelist

My parents were Belfast Catholics. Pete Hamill

Parents Catholics Were Belfast

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