“ I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. David Shields
“ I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize… David Shields
“ The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity. David Shields
“ You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life. David Shields
“ You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing. David Shields
“ Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic. David Shields
“ Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately… David Shields
“ A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion. David Shields
“ I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Colle… David Shields
“ Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sp… David Shields
“ I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or someth… David Shields
“ When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson… David Shields
“ A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone. David Shields
“ To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. David Shields
“ Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t. David Shields
“ Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, a… David Shields
