George R. R. Martin Quotes

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

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.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone's shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

I'm not a sportswriter.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

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.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.

I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.