Sportswriter Quotes

You have to put yourself in the mindset of a 17-year-old kid instead of an old sportswriter. [Monday] was the first day we could call recruits, and it was unanimous -- they were fired up about them. - Mike Bellotti

What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. - Mike Ditka

We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it. - Mike Dowell

To pretend that many of us [in the media] didn't want McNabb to be the best quarterback in the NFL because he's black is absurd. To say that we shouldn't root for a quarterback to win because he's black is every bit as nonsensical as to say that we shouldn't have rooted for Jackie Robinson to succeed because he was black. (Please, I don't need to be reminded that McNabb's situation is not so difficult or important as Robinson's -- I'm talking about a principle.) Consequently, it is equally absurd to say that the sports media haven't overrated Donovan McNabb because he's black ... But the truth is that I and a great many other sportswriters have chosen for the past few years to see McNabb as a better player than he has been because we want him to be. - Allen Barra

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

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter. - Ring Lardner

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

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

The fight implicated both the future of race relations and the prestige of two powerful nations. ... 'Louis represents democracy in its purest form: the Negro boy who would be permitted to become a world champion without regard to race, creed or color,' a sportswriter from Boston had written that morning. 'Schmeling represents a country which does not recognize that idea or ideal.'? - David Margolick