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

“...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

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

“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