Got Your Number Quotes

“The legendary sportswriter Jimmy Cannon wrote perhaps the perfect response to that notion: “Yes, he is a credit to his race—the human race.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“The Yankees handed out numbers based upon a player’s spot in the batting order, which is how Babe Ruth acquired the number 3. His teammate, Lou Gehrig, hit cleanup, and his number, 4, became the first ever retired by any team on July 4, 1939, the day he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

“At their essence, sports lend themselves to the most good-natured debate you will ever encounter, because there is nothing in the world better than investing everything in something that means absolutely nothing”
― Mike Greenberg, Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own