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What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter?
In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.
Mike Ditka
US football player, coach
1994.
If I had to live my life over again, I would have liked to
have ended up a sportswriter.
Richard Nixon
37th US President
1969
Numerous talented sports journalists on popular papers in Fleet
Street might as well check in their perceptions, their originality,
and their seriousness at the front desks for all the use they'll
be allowed to make of them.
Brian Glanville
1977
If there is anything tougher than a sports editor, I should
not like to meet it.
Earl of Arran,
1962
The popular assumption that professional boxers do not have
brains comes from sportswriters, but then sportwriters brains
are themselves damaged by obligation to be clever every day. And
the quantities of booze necessary to lubricate such racing of
the mental gears ends up giving sportswriters the equivalent of
a good many punches to the head.
Norman Mailer