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  • 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.

    "ESPN's Bill Simmons on His Mini-Empire, Why Hollywood 'Sucks' and Why He Won't Write about Sandusky (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.
  • 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.

    Odds   Names   Want  
  • Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

    Writing   Golf   Swings  
    "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

    Games   Brooks  
  • Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

    Team   People   Together  
  • But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

    Bill Simmons (2009). “The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy”, p.44, ESPN
  • 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.

    Baseball   Fun   Winning  
  • 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.

    Believe   One Day   Red  
  • 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.

    "The 13 Best Sports Documentaries" by Brandon Latham, www.indiewire.com. August 13, 2014.
  • 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.

    Kids   School   One Day  
  • Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

    People   Worry  
    "The Summer of No Mailbag". grantland.com. August 23, 2013.
  • One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2009.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Player   Nhl   Nba  
  • Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

  • 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.

  • I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

    Football   Team   Winning  
  • 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.

    Soccer   Daughter   Pride  
    "B.S. Report", grantland.com. March 1, 2012.
  • Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

    Pierce  
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Bill Simmons

  • Born: September 25, 1969
  • Occupation: Sports Columnist