Rajiv Ouseph Quotes

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I'm not a sportswriter.

If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.

Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

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

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.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

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

If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.

I have been following badminton for quite some time, and I know most of the Indian players personally.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?

Jim Murray's greatest writings were golf writings.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.