Stephen Rodrick Quotes

United States, Journalist
September 30, 1966

Stephen Rodrick is an American journalist who is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for Men's Journal. He also writes for Rolling Stone. Rodrick writes mostly about politics, film, and sports, often following his subjects around for months before writing.

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

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- Ads
- Bloggers
- Publicists
To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

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- Ego
- Empire
- Megalomania

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

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If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

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When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

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I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

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- School
- Attention
- Kid
There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

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- Sports
- Sympathy
- Figure
Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

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- Money
- Animal
- Raise

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

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- Players
- Sympathy
- NFL
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.

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- College
- Games
- Sport