Rick Reilly Quotes & Sayings

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that. — Rick Reilly

If Every-day People Could Use Athletes' Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: "I don't know. I just came out a little flat. You can't get hyped up every single day.") — Rick Reilly

Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins. — Rick Reilly

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night. — Rick Reilly

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. — Rick Reilly

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. — Rick Reilly

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered — Rick Reilly

A man is more than his failings. — Rick Reilly

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button. — Rick Reilly

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach. — Rick Reilly

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. — Rick Reilly

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country. — Rick Reilly

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. — Rick Reilly