Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Sally Jenkins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American columnist Sally Jenkins.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Sally Jenkins

Sally Jenkins is an American sports columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post. She was previously a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. She has been named the nation's top sports columnist by the AP sports editors four times and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. She is the author of a dozen books and received the National Press Foundation's chairman citation in 2017.

No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken. — © Sally Jenkins
No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.
Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.
Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.
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