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Sportswriter Quotes

Dick Schaap quote: "Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting."
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. Dick Schaap
Art Rooney quote: "Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack..."
Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. Art Rooney
...if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined. Richard Ford
I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the brain of a one-cell animal. No. That would be your average career sportswriter -- and, more specifically, a full-time Baseball writer. Hunter S. Thompson
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. The other view is a lie of literature and the liberal arts, which is why I did not succeed as a teacher, and another reason I put my novel away in the drawer and have not taken it out. Richard Ford
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. Richard Ford
She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and to have concentrated only on the few things I have concentrated on--her, for one. My children, for another. Sportswriting and being an ordinary citizen. This did not leave me well enough armored for the unexpected, was her opinion. She said this was because I didn't know my parents very well, had gone to a military school, and grown up in the south, which was full of betrayers and... Richard Ford
Luke Ford quote: "At times during high school and college I wished to be a..."
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. Luke Ford
Alvin Dark quote: "The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I..."
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. Alvin Dark
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
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. Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap quote: "I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life. Dick Schaap
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. Oscar Robertson
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. Sean Astin
Joaquin Andujar quote: "I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm..."
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

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