Sportswriters Quotes & Sayings

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter. — Rick Bragg

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. — Joaquin Andujar

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. — Art Rooney

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? — Bob Uecker

Your job during or just after the first draft is to decide what something or somethings yours is about. Your job in the second draft - one of them, anyway - is to make that something even more clear. This may necessitate some big changes and revisions. The benefits to you and your reader will be clearer focus and a more unified story. It hardly ever fails. — Stephen King

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. — Joaquin Andujar

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch. — Derek Jeter

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it - it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you. — Carol S. Dweck

And if it took me more than thirty seconds of thinking, he wouldn't let me flounder. He would jump right in and explain. Not like so many others who liked to call themselves teachers. — Lili St. Crow

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work. — Dean Alford

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters. — Jane Leavy

Then one day I read an article that lifted me out of my despondence and gave me the courage to go on living. I shall never cease to be grateful for one inspiring sentence in that article. It said: 'Every day is a new life to a wise man.' I typed that sentence out and pasted it on the windshield of my car, where I saw it every minute I was driving. I found it wasn't so hard to live only one day at a time. I learned to forget the yesterdays and to not think of the tomorrows. Each morning I said to myself, 'Today is a new life. — Dale Carnegie

Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.
He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn't squirm away, "Jesus. It's like you said that directly to my balls."
She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply. — Debra Anastasia

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value. — Don Yaeger

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you. — Stephen Colbert

She frowned. "I did nothing to arouse you."
He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. "You breathed. — Shayla Black

My real heroes have always been sportswriters. — Dan Jenkins

We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it. — Mark Steyn

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage ... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal. — Hunter S. Thompson

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world. — Naomi Weisstein

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. — Alvin Dark

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons. — Brennan Manning

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. — Charles Barkley

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar. — Richard Ford

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. — Dick Schaap

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. — Eric Dickerson

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy. — Joaquin Andujar

A fan is always an outsider. Most sportswriters are not, by this definition, fans. They capitalize on access to athletes. They spoke to Kobe last night, and Kobe says his finger is going to be fine. They spent three days fly-fishing with Brett Favre in March, and Brett says he's definitely coming back for another season. — Malcolm Gladwell

An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press. — George Will