H. G. Bissinger quotes:

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.