Sportswriters Quotes

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage ... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

My real heroes have always been sportswriters. ~ Dan Jenkins

Sportswriters are all geniuses. ~ The Onion

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. ~ Alvin Dark

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value. ~ Don Yaeger

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? ~ Bob Uecker

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. ~ Joaquin Andujar

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. ~ Art Rooney

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. ~ Dan Jenkins

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter. ~ Rick Bragg

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy. ~ Joaquin Andujar

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it - it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you. ~ Carol S. Dweck

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. ~ Jane Leavy

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. ~ Robert Lipsyte

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. ~ Joaquin Andujar