Quotes by Sports Journalists

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Thomas Boswell
You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
Stephen A. Smith
A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.
Stephen A. Smith
Inside the opponent’s 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent’s 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11.* Regardless of field position, on anything less than fourth and five, teams are always better off going for it.
L. Jon Wertheim
Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.
L. Jon Wertheim
As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.
L. Jon Wertheim
the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.
L. Jon Wertheim
What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.
Thomas Boswell
Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.
Kate Fagan