Dreams Quote by Barney Stinson

“This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so…

— Will Leitch

“If you're going to die at age thirty-five, professional sports is the best life ever. If you're going to die at eighty-five, it's the…

— Douglas Brunt

“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really…

— Roxane Gay

“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here…

— Richard Ford

“I never watch sports. Ever. The reasons are obvious—or should be to anyone who values their time.”

— Graeme Simsion

“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full,…

— Mitch Albom

“Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.”

— Greg Dening

“Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.”

— Nick Hornby

“A freak who thought about death and murder twenty-four-seven, not football games and baseball”

— Tillie Cole

“When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Baseball can indeed break your heart, but, without fail, it will always find a way to make it whole again.”

— Stacey May Fowles