Quotes of: Sports-pages Keyword

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

Jane Leavy

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

LeBron James

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Michael Lewis

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Pierre de Coubertin

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Rachel Stevens

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, ...

Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

Sitting in the bathroom, reading the book again, he became so involved in the story that his legs fell asleep. He kept reading, intending to get up at the end of this page, then at the end of this page, if only because he would feel more comfortable ...

The Car Thief

Would you still read me when I become a blank page.

The Calligraphy of God

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Chains

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

Burt Ward

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Inkspell

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Robert B. Parker

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

Shannon Celebi

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Anthony Bourdain

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

Caitlin Moran

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the during the first eight pages.

David Foster Wallace

I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.

Garrett Hedlund

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

Harold Stephen Black