Amazing Quote by Mary Pilon

Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

— Gay Talese

I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very…

— Chad Harbach

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying…

— Red Smith

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

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.

— Timothy Leary

Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear…

— Susan Casey

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with…

— Richard Gilman

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will…

— Cam Newton

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game,…

— Stuart Scott

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a…

— Bill Simmons

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an…

— Perry Brass