Michael Wilbon Quotes

• The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

  Michael Wilbon

  Believe, Athlete, Winning

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports

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• If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

  Michael Wilbon

  Friday, College, Talking

  "Ten Good Years: Michael Wilbon Talks About "PTI" Reaching A Decade On The Air". Interview with Paul Sanford, www.sportsbusinessdaily.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

  Michael Wilbon

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Kids, Tvs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

  Michael Wilbon

  Men, Sound, Want

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• Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Believe, Convincing

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Olympics, Wizards, NBA, college basketball and more". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

  Michael Wilbon

  Night, Jordan, Enough

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• There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

  Michael Wilbon

  Summer, Memorial Day, Cities

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Eye, Violent

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Michigan State, Tiger Woods, Great Sports Movies and More". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

  Michael Wilbon

  Lombardi, Visionaries, Bills

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• The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Athlete, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Facebook post by Michael Wilbon, www.facebook.com. October 4, 2012.

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• We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

  Michael Wilbon

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Song, Wine

  "The Chat House With Michael Wilbon: Tiger Woods, Michael Vick and the NFL". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

  Michael Wilbon

  Football, Team, Nfl

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Michigan State, Tiger Woods, Great Sports Movies and More". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.

  Michael Wilbon

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Team, Hockey

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

  Michael Wilbon

  Media, Tunes, Degrees

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Men, Matter

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

  Michael Wilbon

  Baseball, Home, Simple

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: NBA and NHL Finals, LeBron James, Redskins and more". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

  Michael Wilbon

  Sports, Team, People

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• Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

  Michael Wilbon

  Years, Listening

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Mean, Ipads

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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