Steve Rushin famous quotes

06-15-2025

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
-- Steve Rushin

#Hockey #Style #Cartoon
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.
-- Steve Rushin

#Hockey #Nhl #Games
Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness
-- Steve Rushin

#Mom #Mother #Son
Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.
-- Steve Rushin

#Frank #Stills
My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
-- Steve Rushin

#New York #Team #Ice
I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his way to his Bentley. I was never very good at steaming up to someone and engaging them in conversation like that.
-- Steve Rushin

#Worry #Way #Bentley
I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?
-- Steve Rushin

#Football #Wall #Thinking
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
-- Steve Rushin

#Writing #Stories #Goes On
Summer runs out the way a centerfielder runs out of real estate - slowly at first, then all at once.
-- Steve Rushin

#Summer #Running #Real
I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.
-- Steve Rushin

#Soccer #Secret #May
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.
-- Steve Rushin

#Sports #College #Years
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.
-- Steve Rushin

#Pregnancy #Games #Progress

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