Michael Wilbon Quotes

#1. I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

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#2. Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

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#3. We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...

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#4. The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading ... just stop.

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#5. Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

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#6. Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

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#7. The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

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#8. Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

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#9. Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

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#10. People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

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#11. What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge ... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

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#12. I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

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#13. God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

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#14. Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

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#15. Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

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#16. Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

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#17. There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

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#18. Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

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#19. Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

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#20. Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

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#21. Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

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#22. My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

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#23. Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

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#24. The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

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#25. There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

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#26. Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary ...

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#27. If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

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