Rick Reilly Quotes

#1. It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

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#2. Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.

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#3. If Every-day People Could Use Athletes' Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: "I don't know. I just came out a little flat. You can't get hyped up every single day.")

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#4. I didn't realize until I locked the door to my apartment and leaned against it, panting that my cheeks were covered in frozen tears. I was such an idiot. And my heart hurt. Bad. Every beat sent an ache rocketing through my body. I was having a heart attack. Or, more likely, my heart had just broken.

Darynda Jones

#5. College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

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#6. There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

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#7. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

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#8. They're willing to let Matt sit and wait until they believe he's ready and I can't do the best I'm capable of doing. I'm completely comfortable with that.

Kurt Warner

#9. I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

Debra Winger

#10. Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

David Levithan

#11. The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

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#12. I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

Anton Corbijn

#13. I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

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#14. I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

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#15. Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

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#17. Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

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#18. Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

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#19. A man is more than his failings.

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