Conventional wisdom Quote by Michael Lewis

“Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

— Nick Hornby

“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

“Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what…

— Corey Irwin

“Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know”

— John Berendt

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

— Barbara Holland

“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

“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by…

— Eamon Dunphy

“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

“Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and…

— E.M. Forster