Latest Mitch Albom Quotes from Interviews

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• I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Kids, Thinking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, kazu.org. October 22, 2016.

• I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

  Mitch Albom

  Mortality, Made

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

• All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Prayer, Smart

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think we've created a system here where only the lifelong politicians, who are used to this kind of life in the spotlight and don't care, or people who have egos along the lines of Donald Trump - who just don't care what people say about them - they're the only people who are ever going to run because nobody wants their life dissected as meanly and as randomly as our media has come to do with anybody who runs for office.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

• You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

  Mitch Albom

  College, America, Community

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

• I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

  Mitch Albom

  College, Thinking, Early Education

  Source: www.npr.org

• First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.

  Mitch Albom

  Real, Kids, Effort

  Source: www.npr.org

• I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

  Mitch Albom

  College, Community, Attendance

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

• I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?

  Mitch Albom

  Sexy, Children, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

• The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

  Mitch Albom

  Ability, Bases

  Source: www.npr.org

• You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Years, Long

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

• Everyone keeps talking about fixing and returning America - making America great. But yet, nobody ever seems to focus on the fact that you're not going to make any country great if you don't address its children.

  Mitch Albom

  Country, Children, Talking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, www.capradio.org. October 22, 2016.

• It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.

  Mitch Albom

  Watches, Someone You Love, Difficult

  CNN Interactive's Tuesday Book Chat, www.cnn.com. 2001.

• I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Mean, Rocks

• There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

  Mitch Albom

  Fun, Done, Instruments

• I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in a song writing infrastructure - i.e., a verse, a chorus that I return to, a bridge that's something differenct, a chorus that I return to.

  Mitch Albom

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Want, Bother

• I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.

  Mitch Albom

  Hate, Team, San Antonio

• I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Use, Pads

• My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Prayer, Coffee

• Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is a child of God; if we really believed that, we'd treat each other better.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, People, Zealous

• The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Important, Elements