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Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.
- Steve Rushin
#Bird
#Fans
#Mind
#Numbers
#Sports
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.
- Steve Rushin
#Airplane
#Look
#Looking
#Stand
#Window
The real driver of my golf game is family. The family that plays together stays together, at least literally so.
- Steve Rushin
#Family
#Game
#Golf
#Real
#Together
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
- Steve Rushin
#Daily
#Library
#Loss
#Silence
#Sorrow
Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American.
- Steve Rushin
#Always
#Been
#Possible
#Sports
#Thing
#Worst
Anyone who thinks sports are ruled by athletes need only think of American sports' most enduring tradition: Immediately after a championship, as the champagne sprays and the confetti falls, the trophy is passed not to the team captain but most often to the team owner, handed to him by his highest-ranking employee, the league commissioner.
- Steve Rushin
#American
#Captain
#Need
#Sports
#Trophy
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
- Steve Rushin
#Man
#Never
#Sports
#Things
#Who
#Will
The first words Rebecca Lobo ever spoke to me when we met in a Manhattan bar in 2001 were, 'Aren't you the guy who just mocked women's basketball in 'Sports Illustrated'?' I blushed, broke out in a flop sweat and said, 'Yes.'
- Steve Rushin
#Me
#Sports
#Sweat
#Women
#Words
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.
- Steve Rushin
#College
#Nothing
#Something
#Sports
#Two
My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
- Steve Rushin
#Bus
#Early
#Interview
#New
#Silence
In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.
- Steve Rushin
#Daily
#Days
#Head
#Like
#Your
Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.
- Steve Rushin
#Deliver
#Hype
#Money
#Pizza
#Your
For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State.
- Steve Rushin
#Cosmos
#Home
#Name
#Never
#World
In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance, so that he played 'Purple Rain' in a purple rain.
- Steve Rushin
#Light
#Performance
#Purple
#Rain
#Stage
What's the best baseball name of all time? Is it Champ Summers? Clyde Kluttz? Razor Shines? Scipio Spinks? Sibby Sisti? Creepy Crespi? Before you answer, consider that Coco Crisp is not even the game's top Coco, an honor retired by Coco Laboy.
- Steve Rushin
#Answer
#Best
#Game
#Honor
#Time
The Metrodome was built for football. Fans seated down the third-base line at a baseball game faced centerfield, so that they had to turn and look over their right shoulders to see home plate.
- Steve Rushin
#Fans
#Football
#Game
#Home
#Look
Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.
- Steve Rushin
#Balls
#Golf
#Smiling
#Sometimes
#Sweet
Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he often shopped for records - an astonishing sight, like the Mona Lisa taking in her own portrait at the Louvre. Prince, paradoxically, was reclusive but always around.
- Steve Rushin
#Always
#Life
#Louvre
#Portrait
#Week
My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, 'Jeopardy!' champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on 'Sesame Street' by a chorus of Muppets.
- Steve Rushin
#Champion
#Gold
#Street
#Who
#Wife
I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.
- Steve Rushin
#Dad
#Haircut
#Man
#Myself
#Police
When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
- Steve Rushin
#Go
#Itself
#Part
#Road
#Story
I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.
- Steve Rushin
#Bedroom
#Dad
#Door
#Night
#Remember
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
- Steve Rushin
#Dad
#Death
#Frustration
#Game
#Mother
Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.
- Steve Rushin
#Anathema
#Compassion
#Empathy
#Sports
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