Richard Ford Quotes

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

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.

To this day, while maintaining a healthy respect for the Giants and Jets and other teams I cover, I admit to checking the results every Monday to see how the Bears did.

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.

I'm not a sportswriter.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

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

A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

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.

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

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

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.