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I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful. -- Mark Ruffalo
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting. -- Dick Schaap
My real heroes have always been sportswriters. -- Dan Jenkins
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. -- Luke Ford
Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. -- Eric Dickerson
Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I. -- Art Rooney
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. -- Joaquin Andujar
Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value. -- Don Yaeger
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. -- Alvin Dark
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy. -- Joaquin Andujar
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. -- Dick Schaap
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? -- Bob Uecker
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters. -- Jane Leavy
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing. -- Sean Astin
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. -- Oscar Robertson
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it. -- Dan Jenkins
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. -- Hunter S. Thompson
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. -- Jimmy Cannon
What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining. -- Mike Ditka
If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter. -- Richard M. Nixon
A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible. -- Barack Obama
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter. -- Red Smith
The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red. -- Frank Crawford
Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. -- Gene Autry

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