Steve Rushin Quotes

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

Since 'Mononoke' has such a dramatic story, I played up the drama, emphasizing the power of a magnum opus.

'Fargo' definitely makes it into my top three favorite films of all time; I have a serious obsession with the Coen brothers.

I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the ultimate, the maximum. It's a challenge that excites me.

I don't like fast cuts. I'd rather shoot something that dances to the music.

I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.

When you go from Division II to the NFL, you're amazed at how good these guys really are.

As an athlete there are times in your career where, during a game, any decision you make seems to be the right one. The bowler bowls where you want, you don't have to think and you are so 'in the zone' that you are not aware of anything else around you.

As a kid, you'd look at all these guys in the NFL and almost idolize them.

My role models weren't holding steering wheels and mashing gears on Sunday. They wore burgundy and gold with names like Art Monk and Darrell Green.

Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.

Depending on who we're playing, it's just kind of, like, a little starstruck. You know, because these are guys that... I'm playing against Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, guys like that that I've been watching since high school, that's been doing crazy things.

I had Steven Spielberg on my radio show.

'Sholay' can be given so many interpretations. I have seen this film so many times since the time I was a kid that I think that there could be 50 lovely interpretations to this film. Different filmmakers can give it so many interpretations, as it's a lovely film.

LaDainian Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Marion Barber, and a host of other black stars help the NFL shine brightly week after week.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

International rugby is a step up, and this is somewhere you come to get better and improve as a player.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.