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Rick Bragg has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your…
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The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower…
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The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of…
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It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game…
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I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,…
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I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
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Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people…
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And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like…
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
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People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.
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Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland…
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What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high…
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The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a…
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When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game…
— Rick Bragg
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I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or…
— Dick Schaap
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Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
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The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
— Alvin Dark
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It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box…
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I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to…
— Sean Astin
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the…
— Bob Uecker
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Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.
— Eric Dickerson
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