I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

Crews was the subject of the first installment of the Rough South documentary series written and directed by Gary Hawkins. He publiHarry Crewsd a memoir in 1978 titled A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. In 1964 Patrick Scott drowned in a neighbor's pool.

Death" (from the poem Buffalo Bill's by e. Crews formerly taught in the creative writing program at the University of Florida. The University of Georgia acquired Harry Crews's papers in August 2006.