Quotes from work

Fever Pitch

“… So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

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“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch (1992)

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch

“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (1992)

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch (1992)