Quotes from Michael Wilbon

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.

Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes... You need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.