Backdrop Quote by Bryant Gumbel

I think sports stories are increasingly part of the diet of most important stories in the country.

— Will Cain

Look, sports are sports. The scores are the scores and the stories are the stories.

— Michelle Beadle

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

— Rachel Griffiths

I've been drawn to sports stories that have an emotional component to it. I'm happy to get a chance to tell a few.

— Chris Connelly

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and…

— Jack Brickhouse

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them…

— Mitch Albom

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect…

— Molly Qerim

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about,…

— Sebastian Coe

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out…

— Robbie Lawler