Words matter. These are the best Sportswriter Quotes from famous people such as Luke Ford, Sean Astin, Thomas Hauser, Garry Marshall, Frank Deford, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can’t think of any I don’t love. I’ve even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don’t know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
Marciano was an idol in a simpler era, when professional athletes were heroes and sportswriters were complicit in building legends rather than exposing them. To the public, all that really mattered was that Rocky had 49 wins in 49 fights and retired in 1956 as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn’t know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that’s largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory – the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls ‘the arc.’
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
I have a wonderful husband, sportswriter Peter Talbert.
A sportswriter’s life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party… Digging beneath a coach’s lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete’s true value.
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
I don’t know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.
Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
I’m not a sportswriter.
I love ‘The Sportswriter’ by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It’s stoic, sad, and really beautiful.
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day – race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.
My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I’m stupid or a clown or something. They think I’m crazy.
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.
I covered hockey for a few years in the late ’90s and early 2000s for the ‘Colorado Springs Gazette,’ and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I’ve done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
