Ring Lardner Quotes


The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.


Citations

Lardner, Ring. You Know Me Al. George H. Doran Company, 1916.

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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner
  • Born: March 5, 1885
  • Died: September 25, 1933
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Journalist

Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.