Words matter. These are the best Jason Whitlock Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I will talk to anybody… You want to talk, let’s talk.
The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s.
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and billionaires reshaping the American media in a way that reflects San Francisco values.
I don’t own a gun. I’m a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don’t believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.
Basketball should be more popular. In my opinion, the NBA should rival the NFL. At the very least, no way should the NFL be five times more popular than the NBA.
No other powerful public figure in the history of American media has controlled his narrative as effectively as David Stern.
I didn’t brown-nose my way here. I pulled out guns and shot my way here. So people don’t mind shooting back. If I’d gotten here brown-nosing and playing all the political games, I’d probably be treated differently.
Great wealth creates an arrogance and, to be quite frank, a god complex in some people that they start feeling like they can do no wrong, they own people, they’re superior to other people.
Self-analysis is the sworn enemy of regret-free living.
Order rooted in and maintained and restored by fear, intimidation, brutality and incarceration is immoral and untenable. Justice is order’s intended soul mate. But serving justice is twice as hard as serving fear.
If all of my instructions to staff during the seven years I hosted a radio show were written down and examined, I’d sound a lot like Bruce Levenson. Hell, I might sound much worse. The path to inclusion and diversity is not paved with precise, pretty words.
It is not, nor will it ever be, white people’s responsibility to teach black children our unique American history.
With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there’s no reason to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the blackness of basketball.
Personally, I’m not all that interested in making the show appealing to casual sports fans.
Steve Fisher did not like me at all. I was hyper-critical of him. I didn’t think he was much of a coach. He just kind of rolled the ball out there and I was pretty outspoken about that. Steve Fisher and I didn’t get along at all.
Dez Bryant isn’t a quarterback. He’s not a leader. He’s a talented, high-maintenance wide receiver.
My dad didn’t graduate high school. My mom is a high school graduate. My mom is a factory worker. My dad owned a bar in the inner city.
The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.
The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.
You want to be leaders and you’re black and I’m here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don’t really care nothing about you.
God is the embodiment of love and we are a society that seems to be embracing and favoring hate and empowering hate.
But at the end of the day, in order for me to reach my full potential, I need an environment that allows me to be me… The executives at Fox Sports get and embrace me. Fox Sports allows me to be real.
I think that fear is a mechanism a tool for control.
Coaches don’t like lazy, disrespectful, cancerous massive headaches.
In fact, female slam-dunking as a spectator sport died this week when Candace Parker won the McDonald’s All-American slam-dunk contest.
Words matter, particularly when you’re writing a story that could significantly damage a person’s or an organization’s reputation.
Judge my columns, enjoy my tweets. That’s my philosophy.
We have grown comfortable not having our perspective challenged. It’s unhealthy.
I’m a conservative dude from the Midwest. I went crazy out here in LA.
I jumped on the Brady Hoke bandwagon in 2003 when he left an assistant job at Michigan to be the head coach at our alma mater. During his six years at Ball State, we were close.
What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker’s Nick Denton in 2005.
There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, I’m going to adopt a whole new identity so I can benefit from being Baby Al Sharpton, Baby Jesse Jackson, and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam.
Black people have no reason to fear political free agency.
As the lone black host at two different all-sports stations, black callers and listeners dominated my show. Black advertisers did not. The show was financially supported primarily by white businesses, and the largest demographic for listener growth was white males.
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.
Investing in your long-term health means cultivating the skills to prepare your own meals, developing healthy eating habits and a willingness to make time to exercise. The earlier you embrace these habits, the healthier you will be in your 50s, 60s and beyond.
Baseball and its 162-game schedule are challenging enough, but try winning the world series of dugout poker with cards supplied by Royals owner David Glass, the Wal-Mart-trained billionaire.
A right to privacy is at the very foundation of American freedoms. It’s a core value. It’s a mistake to undermine a core value because we don’t like the way a billionaire exercises it.
ESPN is the exact network Deadspin desired. It’s diverse on its surface, progressive in its point of view, and more concerned with spinning media narratives than with the quality of its product.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family, work, self-determination and religion comprised his core values.
I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a basketball. It’s a nice little novelty act that has a very short life span.
It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man’s confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.
Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.
Baseball died in K.C. – and other small markets – in 1994 when Bud Selig and the players’ union stopped the season one week after the Hal McRae-led Royals completed a 14-game winning streak.
False equivalency is the lifeblood of American public debate.
I don’t have a beef with Texas. I just don’t think Texans know anything about basketball and they don’t have a sense of humor. Texans take themselves too seriously.
People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.
I wanted to leave ESPN when control of ‘The Undefeated’ was taken from me.
The hall of fame is something you do when you look back at the end of your career, not in the middle of it.
Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.
I’m a sports columnist who specializes in social commentary.
In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general’s warning: hazardous to your family and the values you were taught as a child.
Remember that the NFL was cultivated into prominence by Pete Rozelle, a pro-war conservative. In the 1960s, Rozelle hired a World War II veteran-turned-filmmaker, Ed Sabol, to produce highlights, commercials and documentaries that marketed the sport as patriotic and militaristic.
Journalists used to be obsessed with working at a New York magazine or newspaper or TV network. Now the entire industry is obsessed with going viral and how words will be received via social media.
Making it financially does not protect you, though. Genetic gifts and a gigantic professional contract do not shield athletes from the effect of damaged childhoods.
