Michael Wilbon famous quotes

04-17-2025

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ...
-- Michael Wilbon

#Basketball #Sports #Baseball
The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Reading #Athlete #White
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Basketball #Sports #Football
Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Believe #Convincing
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Years #Listening
My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Team #Hockey
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Reading #Mean #Hands
Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Football #Eye #Violent
Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Football #Team #Nfl
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Kids #Tvs
Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Baseball #Home #Technology
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Writing #Thinking #Editors
The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Media #Degrees #Want
Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Football #Song #Wine
There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Summer #Memorial Day #Cities
The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Believe #Athlete #Winning
There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Men #Matter
Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Football #Player #Nfl
Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports
People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Sports #Team #People
Whatever you paid to seeÂ MichaelÂ Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.
-- Michael Wilbon

#Night #Jordan #Enough

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