Steve Rushin

I'm a product of the 1970s.

— Steve Rushin

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

— Steve Rushin

I'd never had much interest in cool cars.

— Steve Rushin

LeBron will not likely win six rings.

— Steve Rushin

The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.

— Steve Rushin

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.

— Steve Rushin

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

— Steve Rushin

'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese.

— Steve Rushin

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.

— Steve Rushin

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness

— Steve Rushin

If you've never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don't succeed, try again.

— Steve Rushin

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

— Steve Rushin

When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say,…

— Steve Rushin

In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered…

— Steve Rushin

Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.

— Steve Rushin

With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June…

— Steve Rushin

I turned 7 in 1973 and remember Bobby Riggs arriving at the Astrodome on a chariot pulled by showgirls before his 'battle…

— Steve Rushin

Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or…

— Steve Rushin

With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became…

— Steve Rushin

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf…

— Steve Rushin

It's one thing to wear jerseys at games, which fans have been doing in great numbers for 30 years, dressing as if…

— Steve Rushin

Grafted onto street clothes and removed from the field of play, jerseys don't even flatter men in their physical prime. Witness any…

— Steve Rushin

My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, 'Jeopardy!' champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton,…

— Steve Rushin

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by…

— Steve Rushin

Broadcasters calling a big game are often reminded to let the action breathe. A great moment of a televised game doesn't need…

— Steve Rushin

My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team…

— Steve Rushin

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979…

— Steve Rushin

“Moment, momentum, momentous If you reduce sports to its smallest discrete units, its subatomic particles, you're left with protons and electrons and…

— Steve Rushin

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

— Steve Rushin

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

— Steve Rushin

Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American.

— Steve Rushin

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

— Steve Rushin

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

— Steve Rushin

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

— Steve Rushin

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

— Steve Rushin

I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'

— Steve Rushin

Recording shows for later viewing is what TV types call 'time-shifting.' It's a beguiling idea.

— Steve Rushin

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

— Steve Rushin

Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.

— Steve Rushin