Friends Quote by Art Rooney

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal…

— Jane Leavy

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

— Don Yaeger

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

— Dan Jenkins

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

“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

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

— Dick Schaap

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

— Eric Dickerson

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

— Joaquin Andujar

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

— Charles Barkley

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…

— Bob Uecker

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

— Joaquin Andujar

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

— Robert Lipsyte

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely…

— Frank Deford