Rick Reilly Quotations

One time after one of these long trips, my wife and I had been separated for a long time and I called her and said, 'Baby, you better meet me at the gate with a mattress, ... And she goes, 'You better be the first guy off that plane.'

Joe Kay isn't half as quick of feet or brain as the old one,

I'm happy because I'm not in Detroit. I never have to live in Detroit.

And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.'

They look like they had a wonderful time at Circuit City. They spent $700 there.

I mean, c'mon, ... Yeah, 'It's a sport. Let's kill a rabbit.' Let's not call that a sport. I actually heard a guy go, 'I never apologize to the kill. I thank him for the contest.'

And here he was, a junior walk-on place-kicker whose sore leg had kept him out of practice for three weeks, standing 29 yards from never having to buy another beer in the state of Iowa.

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.

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.

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.