Cases Quote by Richard Ford

“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

“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really…

— Roxane Gay

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how…

— Joe Posnanski

“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

— Alistair Cooke

If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life…

— Richard Ford

“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.”

— Emily Giffin

“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

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is…

— Gilda Radner

You're your own athlete, you have your own story to write and at the end of the day, our story that we have together…

— Shaquill Griffin

“This I decided is what sports are, what they can do. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of…

— Phil Knight

“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

“People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have…

— Jarod Kintz