Rick Reilly Quotes

• 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.

  Rick Reilly

  School, Golf, Games

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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.

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Country, Reading

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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.

  Rick Reilly

  Writing, Stories, Someday

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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

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Cat, Years

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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.

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Loss, Winning

  "Heading for home" by Rick Reilly, abcnews.go.com. June 10, 2014.

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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.

  Rick Reilly

  Player, Nfl, Scotch

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• A man is more than his failings.

  Rick Reilly

  Men, Failing

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• The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

  Rick Reilly

  Funny Marriage, Buttons, Tvs

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

  Rick Reilly

  Sports, Men, Coaches

  Rick Reilly (2003). “The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly”, Sports Illustrated

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• I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

  Rick Reilly

  Baby, Moon, Sugar

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• College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

  Rick Reilly

  Football, Night, College

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• Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.

  Rick Reilly

  Party, Winning, Nebraska

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