Quotes About Sports Writing

#1. Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Joe Posnanski

#2. News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

#3. By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Jane Leavy

#4. I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

Winston Churchill

#5. Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

Andrew Sullivan

#6. That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

Adam Carolla

#7. As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.

Shawn Anthony Levy

#8. Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

J. A. Adande

#9. If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Paul Westhead

#10. Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Anita Desai

#11. A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Jimmy Cannon

#12. I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Brock Yates

#13. I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

Red Smith

#14. I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Joseph O'Neill

#15. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

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

Pete Hamill

#17. I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.

David A. Adler

#18. Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

Rick Riordan

#19. Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

Lauren Groff

#20. I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

Daniel Radcliffe

#21. he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

Duncan Wu

#22. I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

George Vecsey

#23. I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Rodman Philbrick

#24. When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?

Mike Nichols

#25. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie Ecclestone

#26. For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

Red Smith

#27. I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Mindy Kaling

#28. When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

Tony DiCicco

#29. When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#30. My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.

Jeff Cardoni

#31. Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

#32. I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

John Edgar Wideman

#33. 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

#34. While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#35. Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Louis C.K.

#36. I've had a great career in sports broadcasting - but I'm interested in lots of things. I like to write, I like to produce video projects, and I love to appear on stage.

Ralph Strangis

#37. Writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

Steven Taylor Goldsberry

#38. Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Raymond E. Feist