A Quote by Steve Rushin

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

Steve Rushin

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Steve Rushin
American - Novelist
Born: September 22, 1966

I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

Sergio Martinez

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

John Podhoretz

If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per week. There is a lot of buildup for a little bit of work compared to the guys who play every down or play every day in baseball.

Stephen Gostkowski

I couldn't care less if I make a fourth-round U.S. Open or I lose first round. To me, everything is the same.

Bernard Tomic

All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.

Marv Levy

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

Lynsey Addario

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

Joe Torre

I won my very first fight by knockout in the first round. The trainer at the time was in love with me and he said I could make a career out of boxing. So I started boxing for the barrios or neighborhood championship.

Marcos Maidana

Every time I fought at home, I gave my fans a knockout. I spoiled my fan base in Cincinnati.

Adrien Broner

You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.

Gerrit Cole

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. 30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Simmons

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Carl Bernstein

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

Imran Amed

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

John W. Gardner

I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.

Aerin Lauder

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