Don't Know Tough Quotes

“Bradshaw’s threats, Timmons’s questions, Billy’s missing family, any and all worries from before are absolved between the lines of the football field. It should be illegal, Trent thinks, the power the game has over men, a blinding, burning feeling—a drug—that’s what football is. And for the winners there are no warning labels, no side effects or hangovers, nothing except the pure, undiluted knowledge that you are superior to your fellow man.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“What could be worse than death?”
“If you don’t know already, then don’t go asking.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough