Sports Journalist

🇺🇸Mitch Albom

Literature

b. 1958

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else."

🇺🇸Bob Costas

Sports

b. 1952

"Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason, including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series—now, cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns."

🇬🇧David Icke

Sports

b. 1952

"Mad, Bad, or just prepared to go where others fear to tread? The most controversial author and speaker in the world"

🇺🇸Katherine Dunn

Literature

1945–2016

"'Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye."

🇺🇸Roger Kahn

Literature

1927–2020

"The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat."

🇺🇸Carl Andre

Art

Minimalism

1935–2024

"Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are poems."

🇺🇸Jason Whitlock

Sports

b. 1967

"Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football."

🇺🇸Howard Cosell

Sports

1918–1995

"I was infected with my desire, my resolve, to make it in broadcasting. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how."

🇬🇧Murray Walker

Sports

1923–2021

"Murray Walker, at the British Film Institute's Screenonline"

🇬🇧Robert Smith Surtees

Literature

1805–1864

"Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments."

"When you think of natural ballplayers, only two come into mind, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays."