Top 12 Quotes by Rick Reilly

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Rick Reilly

School, Golf, Games

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

Rick Reilly

Sports, Country, Reading

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Rick Reilly

Writing, Stories, Someday

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

Rick Reilly

Sports, Cat, Years

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

Rick Reilly

Sports, Loss, Winning

"Heading for home" by Rick Reilly, abcnews.go.com. June 10, 2014.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

Rick Reilly

Player, Nfl, Scotch