Rick Reilly Quotations

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

A man is more than his failings.

It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.