Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He formerly worked at The Kansas City Star and Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Thompson’s topics have covered a wide range of sports issues.

Wright Thompson Quotes

1. “When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, leaving something it its place I have traded for it.”
— Wright Thompson

2. “I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you’re standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.”
— Wright Thompson

3. “I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they’re all dispatches from a worldview.”
— Wright Thompson

4. “Keeping up with Urban Meyer is more of an Olympic event than handball.”
— Wright Thompson

5. “I’m not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event.”
— Wright Thompson

6. “So this is what it means,” she said and I understood. We build a life to share, to pass on, so that some idea of us can live in our children and grandchildren, so that we might live forever and they might never be alone.”
— Wright Thompson

7. “Our fathers are often mysteries to us and therefore we are often mysteries to ourselves.”
— Wright Thompson

8. “This guy is handier than a pocket in a shirt.”
— Wright Thompson

9. “That’s writing, he said. Be simple, blunt, and profound.”
— Wright Thompson

10. “Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. I was bringing a child into this world, and into our long history of trying to do the right think while benefiting mightily from the wrong thing, and I wanted her to see it clearly without the nostalgia that so often softens my anger and desire to tear it down and build a new world in its place.”
— Wright Thompson

11. “That’s the work of adulthood. Sorting out the good and bad within.”
— Wright Thompson

12. “Families stay together because of active decisions, because of patters that turn into tribunals, and they are torn apart most often not by anger or feuds but by careless inertia.0.”
— Wright Thompson

13. “Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly.”
— Wright Thompson