Steve Rushin Quotes
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If you've never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don't succeed, try again.
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Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
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The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
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There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
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Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.