Quotes About Sports Journalism

#1. This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

Will Leitch

#2. Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.

Roone Arledge

#3. Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

Jane Leavy

#4. What happens if the cause dies? What happens if people die? Why would I subject myself to that? It's just easier to not." She said.
"I suppose, but what's the use of living in freedom if you can't free others, too?" I asked her.

Meghan Blistinsky

#5. Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.

Joey Comeau

#6. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

#7. Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

Gordon Lish

#8. Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J.L. Austin

#9. Being with her can prove difficult, but life without her would be unbearable.

J.E. Johnson

#10. Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.

Pete Hamill

#11. I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

Jenna Bush

#12. Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

Bill Rodgers

#13. The U.N. is asking Italy to oversee this effort. And if a government is formed, you're likely to see up to 5,000 Italian troops maybe go in to provide security and also train a Libyan army.

Tom Bowman

#14. Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

Joy Harjo

#15. There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

J.R. Moehringer

#16. I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#17. Jesus himself provides the measuring stick by which we may know whether a teacher or practitioner of the Christian faith is genuine or fraudulent. "You shall know them by their fruit,

Brian Tubbs

#18. Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

Dave Zirin

#19. But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.

Dave Barry

#20. I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Anthony Burgess