Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Rick Reilly

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Rick Reilly.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Rick Reilly

Richard Paul Reilly is an American sportswriter. Long known for being the "back page" columnist for Sports Illustrated, Reilly moved to ESPN on June 1, 2008, where he was a featured columnist for ESPN.com and wrote the back page column for ESPN the Magazine. Reilly hosted ESPN's Homecoming with Rick Reilly, an interview show, and he is a contributing essayist for ESPN SportsCenter and ABC Sports.

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.
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. — © Rick Reilly
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
A man is more than his failings.
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.
The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.
There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.
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.
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.
Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
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