Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

— Michael Wilbon

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

— Michael Wilbon

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

— Michael Wilbon

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for…

— Michael Wilbon

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

— Michael Wilbon

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins…

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and…

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers?…

— Michael Wilbon

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…

— Michael Wilbon

My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there…

— Michael Wilbon

The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in…

— Michael Wilbon

I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty…

— Michael Wilbon

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.…

— Michael Wilbon

Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The…

— Michael Wilbon

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

— Michael Wilbon

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be…

— Michael Wilbon

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in…

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

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

— Michael Wilbon

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…

— Michael Wilbon

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

— Michael Wilbon