RICK REILLY

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.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

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

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.

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

Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

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

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

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.