I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‚Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.‘ I don’t want to be part of that.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

‚The New Yorker‘ was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I’d more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions – not much.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

My first win feels better than a draw!

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it’s great.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I don’t know about the 2026 World Cup. But I would love to see Anirudh Thapa sending a cross to Jhingan and I would love to watch it from the stands.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

I am not a consecutive writer.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

I’m addicted to placebos.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.