Dave Zirin > Quotes

“The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.”
― Dave Zirin, A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

“I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way. I knew somebody.”
― Dave Zirin, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing

“...it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.”
― Dave Zirin, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

“President Teddy Roosevelt argued that organized athletics could be the means for instilling the character and values deemed necessary to make America a global power in the century to come. Sports could breed a sense of hard work, self-discipline, and the win-at-all-cost ethic of competition. Roosevelt once said, presumably while swinging a big stick,”
― Dave Zirin, What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States

“Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can’t use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.”
― Dave Zirin, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing