Quotes About Sports Writers

#1. 'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

Artie Lange

#2. I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Simmons

#3. Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Avi Arad

#4. In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything
to impress women.
(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

#5. Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn't mean you cannot see them.

A.D.Y. Howle

#6. I want to be back to work next week.
'Let's get you home first. I need to evaluate the extent of your mental impairment.' She tried to flash me the peace sign, but in her weakend condition, she only managed to raise her middle finger.

Nelson DeMille

#7. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

Phil Knight

#9. If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

Rivers Cuomo

#11. This is her husband motherfucker. Don't call my wife's phone again," With that Uri hangs up.

Blue Saffire

#12. I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

Meghan Daum

#13. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper

#14. My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

Jeff Bridges

#15. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

Thomas Gray

#17. ,but at least there were books. Books were escape.

Stephen King

#18. I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay