Sportswriters Quotes

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

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

That means that there's a whole lot of dumb sportswriters out there. No, I don't know what it means. We take it as a compliment to the program and the kids that we have. - Fred Wieck

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

Stats are created for sportswriters. Stats are not a measure of you as a ballplayer, and not of us as a team. - Buck Kicinski

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

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. - Dick Schaap

It changed my life. Because, you know, that's why God is so powerful. He lives. I couldn't have wrote that script. That was bigger than mankind [smiles]. When things happen like that, you know that God is involved. I'm jus thankful He allowed me the courage to really feel in my heart and to really believe in what I said. And then to go out there and knock this guy out two rounds later, oh my God, and I told the world at the Ruiz press conference, I told the world, I want your legacy to be intact when I knock you out. When am I gonna get my shot at history Roy? You have to really go back and recognize the power, the power of the mind, and a vision. I had that vision. And I never let it go. I didn't care what the politics said, what the sportswriters wrote, I never lost my vision and that's why I went in there and did my thing. - Antonio Tarver

I thought that a good deal of his coverage was dictated by fear of losing access. And I think that a lot of sportswriters, especially at community papers, are concerned about that - and it's a legitimate concern, and a legitimate problem. - Steve Klein