Chuck Klosterman Quotes about Sports

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.

Chuck Klosterman

Sports, Jobs, Real

"Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

Chuck Klosterman

Sports, Listening, Events

"Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.

Chuck Klosterman

Sports, Writing, Choices

Source: www.avclub.com

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.

Chuck Klosterman

Soccer, Sports, Exercise

Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.82, Faber & Faber