Bill Simmons famous quotes

05-22-2025

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams
-- Bill Simmons

#Games #Brooks
One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.
-- Bill Simmons

#Basketball #Favorites Things #My Favorite
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
-- Bill Simmons

#Basketball #Soccer #Teamwork
Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.
-- Bill Simmons
Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.
-- Bill Simmons

#Coffee #Highlights
Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.
-- Bill Simmons

#Odds #Names #Want
If you have a privately owned system, there's going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries. If you have a community owned, municipally owned facility, those extra resources are being reinvested in the community and they can be going to weatherization and other projects that are vested in the community.
-- Bill Simmons

#Communication #Community #Leaving
The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
-- Bill Simmons

#Player #Nhl #Nba
I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
-- Bill Simmons

#Baseball #Fun #Winning
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.
-- Bill Simmons

#Sports #Impact #Empowering
I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
-- Bill Simmons

#Soccer #Daughter #Pride
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
-- Bill Simmons

#Sports #Perspective #Tragedy
In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.
-- Bill Simmons

#Believe #One Day #Red
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
-- Bill Simmons

#Writing #Golf #Swings
But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
-- Bill Simmons

#Basketball #Games #Play
When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.
-- Bill Simmons

#School #Kids #One Day

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