Michael Wilbon Quotes

If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

Michael Wilbon

• Idea
• Friday
• Range

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

Michael Wilbon

• Football
• Suffering
• Coaching

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

Michael Wilbon

• Sports
• Grew
• Newspapers

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

Michael Wilbon

• Want
• Sound
• Grumpy

Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.

Michael Wilbon

• Thinking
• Priorities
• Sections

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

Michael Wilbon

• Innovators
• Visionaries

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.

Michael Wilbon

• Thinking
• Baseball
• Hockey

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

Michael Wilbon

• Sports
• Define

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

Michael Wilbon

• Believe
• Convincing
• Executives

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

Michael Wilbon

• Football
• Violent