Quotes by Stephen Rodrick - Page 1

Rick Rubin eats no cheese.
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Cheese
Eats
Rick
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Brett Favre likes to tell stories.
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Likes
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I grew up in a town without fathers.
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Fathers
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Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.
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Bridges
Jeff
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There's no doubt Matt Leinart loves his son very much.
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No Doubt
Loves
Matt
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There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
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Sympathy
Deserve
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I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.
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Premature
Month
Arrive
Brains
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The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
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Bridges
Home Base
Base
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NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
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Sympathy
Blind
Nfl
Christians
Romans
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All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.
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Patron
Saint
Cue
Patron Saint
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I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
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Bored
Classic
Deficit
Disorder
Attention Deficit
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If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
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Milestone
Reaching
Superstar
True Nature
Reveal
Serve
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James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
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Fighter Pilot
Climber
Counts
James
Pilot
Robert
Robert Redford
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Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.
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Carrier
Peter
Qualified
Jets
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When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
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Circumstances
Fans
Sympathetic
Franchise
Sunk
Superstars
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A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.
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Stranger
Me People Things
Colleague
Magical
Mocking
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Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.
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Ads
Bloggers
Cater
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Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran.
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November
Tehran
Terror
Historians
Hostages
Trace
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Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
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Conversation
Extraterrestrial
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The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.
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Coming Home
Time Home Always
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To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
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Lone
Dash
Empire
Row
Tour
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Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.
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Angelina Jolie
Neck
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'TMZ' has the cash to buy off valets and info like flight lists or even the limo list of what celeb is being picked up where and when.
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Cash
Flight
List
Picked
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I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.
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Bike
Shoes
Tested
Training
Wheels
Iq
Ride
Tie
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The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
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Entitled
Nashville
Smithsonian
Box
Cave
Den
Exhibit
Preserve
Tim
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One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
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Adept
Persona
Brings
Craig
Daniel
Lewis
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Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.
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Adulation
Los Angeles
Martial Arts
Work Out
Angeles
Los
Martial
Robert
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From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
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Beach
Court
Generic
Tennis
Circular
Rarely
Rick
Tennis Court
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As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.
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Backup
Completing
Hero
Rings
Super Bowl
Amaze
Bowl
Passes
Super
Terry
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More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
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College Football
Incompetence
Amateur
Downright
Football Games
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The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.
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Peter
Significance
Barely
Greats
Numerical
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'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent.
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Privacy
Scent
Assumes
False
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In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
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College Football
Disaster
Miami
Manner
Park
Root
Sadly
Strike
Wallow
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Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.
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Blue
Groups
Sharks
Disappearing
Suggest
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Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.
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Backup
Bob
Montgomery
Opening
Opening Day
Catcher
Occasionally
Red Sox
Season
Sox
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Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.'
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Mike
Sharks
Tyson
Unspeakable
Billion
Watched
Champ
Dudes
Lights
Mike Tyson
Opened
Whispered
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Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.
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Homage
Long Island
Island
Registered
Rick
Shaved
Trademark
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As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.
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Consistently
Column
Illustrated
Steve
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Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.
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Armstrong
Austin
Crucifixion
Wall
Lance Armstrong
Mansion
Spanish
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Celebs that hit the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills quadrant and places like the Urth Caffe are not exactly trying to keep a low profile; it's sort of like if LeBron James went to an ESPN Zone and then whined about being hounded for autographs.
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Autographs
Espn
Hills
Profile
Zone
Exactly
Lebron
James
Lebron James
Low
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Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'
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Basketball
Espn
Nba
Show Business
Appears
Center
Commentator
Guest
Regular
Smith
Ubiquitous
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Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?
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Animal
Cash
Poor
Seals
Youtube
Endangered
Flows
Hits
Orphaned
Raise
Save
Shark
Trillion
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Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It's why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.
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Xbox
Buddy
Autograph
Chat
Unlike
Matt
Rarely
Superstars
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Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain.
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Beloved
Legends
Los Angeles
Papers
Angeles
Attain
Cherished
Column
Jim
Los
Post
Shirley
Washington Post
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I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.
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Depressing
More Things Than
Barry
Bonds
Few Things
Homer
Rapidly
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There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.
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Artificial
Blue
College Football
Idaho
July
Playoffs
Turf
American League
Bowl
Creep
Hosts
Season
Steve
Threatens
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Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
Stephen Rodrick /
Baseball
Elegance
Evidence
Former
Legendary
Painful
Wretched
Star
Cite
Sport
Number
His Way
Hits
Toward
Wins
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Matt Leinart's L.A. duplex looks more like a Chuck E. Cheese safe house than a millionaire jock's crash pad. There's the requisite leather couch and flat-screen television, but the rest of the ground floor is bare except for a pile of Nick Jr. DVDs, a high chair, and a SpongeBob SquarePants director's chair.
Stephen Rodrick /
Cheese
Chuck
Crash
Leather
Millionaire
Bare
Chair
Couch
Floor
Jock
Matt
Nick
Pad
Pile
Requisite
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There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress.
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Beard
Bipolar
Disorder
Homeland
Libertarian
Paranoia
Population
Showtime
Terror
United States Of America
World People America
Million People
Roughly
Runs
Thriller
Ticket
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