Rick Reilly quotes:
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College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.
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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.
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I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
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Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
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I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
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Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
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There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
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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.
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The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
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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.
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A man is more than his failings.
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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.