Bird Quote by Steve Rushin

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.

— Imran Tahir

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of…

— Roger Angell

When athletes are obsessed with whatever identity niche they've backed themselves into at the expense of showcasing America, everybody suffers. They forget to focus…

— Miranda Devine

Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a…

— Louis Zamperini

“Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of…

— Charlie Brooker

I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense…

— Billie Jean King

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

— John F. Kennedy

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken…

— Chris Cleave

There's such a thing as retribution in sports.

— George Mikan

“Muhammad Ali has a lot to answer for. When he lit the flame at the Atlanta Olympics there wasn't a dry eye on the…

— Michael Robotham