Michael Wilbon Quotes

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge ... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading ... just stop.