112 Quotes by Steve Rushin

In dying, she allayed my greatest fear -- of death. Dying joined shoe tying and coat zipping and bed making on the long list of acts Mom demonstrated for her children, so that we could someday do it for ourselves.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.

Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate – slowly at first, then all at once.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don’t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of “Instant Classics” no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.