Michael Wilbon Quotes

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.