“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.” IfsHumansAbleFormHumanityAnimalDoubtRightsCreationDevilAbuseTreatedCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsFeathersCousinVegetarianismFurAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveEnslavementVegetarian HealthHuman AnimalAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsAnimal LifeHuman FormAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseAnimal KingdomVegan HealthAnimal TestingHuman CrueltyWildlife AnimalsAbused Animals Author:William Ralph Inge
“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.” IfsWayNeedsWritingYearsPlayerWrittenReaderFairsAccused Author:Peter King
“I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.” TryingFirstsGamesSixVersionsNbaTease Author:Mike Tirico
“Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.” MindJobsDo The BestBest Job Author:Bill Raftery
“The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.” StillsAirlineUneasiness Author:Verne Lundquist
“The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to every criticism... To be able to able to hang around athletics for a lifetime and to meet all these wonderful people I've come in contact with, to have been around as many big events as I have, I can't imagine a day when I did not have something to make me happy about sports.” PeopleHas BeensI CanBigsAbleBitsSportsImagineWonderfulJourneyEventsLowsCriticismPraiseLifetimeWaveContactAthleticsMake Me HappyGetting HighBig EventsGet LowWonderful Journey Author:Brent Musburger
“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.” NeedsRunningSportsCollegeUniversityCongressActiveFacultyAutonomyEmpoweredBackboneAdministratorsNcaaCollege SportsBylaws Author:Sally Jenkins
“The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.” AmericaSportsBlackWhitePoorFootballBasketballMassConservativeWealthyArenaLatinoStadiumsBlack White Author:Jason Whitlock
“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsProblemHappensGamesSportsPresidentSimpleCasesTeamStudentsFootballCollegeBasketballUniversityAthleteOpponentsRevenueCrushedSimple ThingsBasketball TeamDisarmingStudent Athlete Author:Bob Costas
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.” LifeWisdomHappinessInterestWorryTroublePaidDuesStop WorryingAnxiety And WorryStress And WorryOvercoming Worry Author:William Ralph Inge
