Top 40 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.
Michael Wilbon
#2. Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.
Michael Wilbon
#3. We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...
Michael Wilbon
#4. Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.
Zig Ziglar
#5. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#6. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#7. Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
Michael Wilbon
#8. The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.
Michael Wilbon
#9. Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.
Ed Brubaker
#10. I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. Youth is a predominant factor. We are seeing a young King Arthur, and thereby a young-ish - as I'm into my 40s - Merlin. It was about how to tackle it, from that point view.
Joseph Fiennes
#12. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#13. Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
Michael Wilbon
#14. People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.
Michael Wilbon
#15. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#16. I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.
Michael Wilbon
#17. For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde
#18. God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
Michael Wilbon
#19. Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
Michael Wilbon
#21. I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less
Paul Brown
#22. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#23. Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
Michael Wilbon
#24. All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna C. Brackett
#25. There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.
Michael Wilbon
#26. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#27. Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.
Michael Wilbon
#28. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#29. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#30. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#31. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#32. Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
Stefan Kanfer
#33. We almost couldn't fit all of our hair into the car, but luckily we were wearing fewer clothes so it balanced out.
Kristen Ashley
#34. When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
Linda McCartney
#35. 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.
Michael Wilbon
#36. There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.
Michael Wilbon
#37. Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary ...
Michael Wilbon
#38. I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.
Robert Palmer
#40. 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.
Michael Wilbon
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