27 Quotes by Rick Reilly

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

College football is LSU’s Tiger Stadium at night.

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn’t matter. Never let them tell you it’s all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

There’s never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I’m going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered.

It’s people stories that make good reading. I don’t feel like I’m a sportswriter. I feel like I’m a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He’s a very ill man. He doesn’t get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don’t matter to him.