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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.
Stephen Rodrick
Privacy
Car
Illusion
Scent
Assumes
Took
Paranoid
Someone
Throw
Always
False
Off
Just
Star
Now
Away
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.
Stephen Rodrick
You
Sit
Down
Some
Crucifixion
Armstrong
His
Austin
Wall
Hanging
Want
Spanish
Mean
Lance Armstrong
Might
Mansion
Jesus
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.
Stephen Rodrick
You
Ego
Win
Build
Seven
Must
Lone
Dash
Tour
Empire
Row
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
Stephen Rodrick
Future
Man
Entitled
Smithsonian
Box
Tim
Exhibit
Nashville
Den
Cave
American
Century
Should
Early
Preserve
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.'
Stephen Rodrick
Sharks
Whoa
Tyson
TV
Unspeakable
Opened
Since
Lights
Dudes
Whispered
Mike
Mike Tyson
Billion
Ever
Things
Champ
Watched
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?
Stephen Rodrick
You
Animal
Money
YouTube
Think
Trillion
About
Cash
Head
Shark
Over
Got
Endangered
Trying
Hits
Getting
Being
Poor
Seals
Orphaned
Raise
Flows
Save
The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
Stephen Rodrick
Home
Big
Course
Home Base
Bridges
Base
Brett Favre likes to tell stories.
Stephen Rodrick
Tell
Likes
Stories
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Work
Face
Long
Hair
About
Long Island
He
Since
Shaved
Read
Island
Boy
Trademark
Been
His
Just
Famous
Registered
Body
Homage
Rick
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Home
Millionaire
Drive
Circular
Rarely
Beach
Above
Outside
Tennis
Tennis Court
Generic
House
Court
Used
Rick
Maybe it's impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial.
Stephen Rodrick
Time
Conversation
Impossible
Extraterrestrial
Spend
Move
Maybe
When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.
Stephen Rodrick
Matter
Fans
Down
Franchise
Circumstances
Sunk
Superstars
Could
Know
How
Go
Sympathetic
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Me
Hero
Three
Completing
Kid
Backup
Rings
Super
Super Bowl
Bowl
Terry
Amaze
Passes
While
Who
Two
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Day
Soul
Young
Montgomery
Backup
Born
Entire
More
Never
Had
He
Catcher
Red
Opening
Opening Day
Red Sox
Occasionally
Than
Sox
Bob
Season
All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.
Stephen Rodrick
Take
Cue
Saint
Patron
Patron Saint
If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
Stephen Rodrick
Nature
Nothing
Else
Superstar
True
Reaching
True Nature
Reveal
Often
Act
Milestone
Serve
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Post
Job
Nothing
Else
Jim
Papers
Angeles
Guys
Higher
Attain
Write
Column
Like
Most
Cherished
Los
Los Angeles
Were
Years
Shirley
Times
Legends
Washington
Washington Post
Beloved
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
Stephen Rodrick
School
Deficit
Kid
Bored
Classic
Attention
Attention Deficit
Always
Off
Disorder
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Time
Home
Father
Long
Long Time
Gone
Living
About
He
Takes
Without
Always
Coming
Coming Home
Realize
Thing
I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.
Stephen Rodrick
Else
Month
Arrive
Brains
Much
Premature
Dad
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.
Stephen Rodrick
Sense
Adept
Daniel
See
His
Persona
Craig
Public
Actor
Brings
British
Lewis
Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.
Stephen Rodrick
Ads
Cater
Because
Bloggers
Want
Them
Play
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