Bricks Quote by Red Smith

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

— Artie Lange

That's the reason why sports are so important to the fabric of the world. Real life sport is reality TV and it allows us…

— Matt Mitrione

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still…

— Jermaine O'Neal

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can…

— Ian MacKaye

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented…

— Hannah Storm

As a professional entertainer in sports, you get a lot of real-world experience in a world that's not very real - which is a…

— Shawn Bradley

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

— Timothy Leary

I think sports media really do need to think about the world in more humble terms. Not everything is the game of the century,…

— Tim Tebow

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

I think sports is part of the healing process for society.

— Barry Trotz

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks…

— Hakeem Olajuwon

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from…

— Mary Pilon