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John Gregory Dunne

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

– John Gregory Dunne

Joaquin Andujar

I don’t know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

– Joaquin Andujar

Joaquin Andujar

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I’m stupid or a clown or something. They think I’m crazy.

– Joaquin Andujar

Jason Johnson

Google ‘Great White Hope and NBA’ and you’ll see a mayonnaise graveyard of overrated White stars that the NBA and entrenched sportswriters tried to lift up.

– Jason Johnson

Jackie Robinson

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

– Jackie Robinson

Frank Deford

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that’s largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory – the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls ‘the arc.’

– Frank Deford

Eric Dickerson

Them sportswriters don’t even know how to put uniforms on, most of ’em.

– Eric Dickerson

Don Yaeger

Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete’s true value.

– Don Yaeger

Dick Schaap

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

– Dick Schaap

Dan Jenkins

My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

– Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins

A sportswriter’s life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party… Digging beneath a coach’s lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

– Dan Jenkins

Art Rooney

Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.

– Art Rooney

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