George Vecsey Quotes

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.

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.

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

I have such respect for the guys at ESPN.

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

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.

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.

You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.

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.

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.

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 know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

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

Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.

I watch ESPN all day long.

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'

To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.

I was an Evertonian as a kid, but I've never hated Man United. I've always had respect for them.