I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.

- Steve Rushin

My first interview at SI, I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Thos…

- Steve Rushin

I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadiu…

- Steve Rushin

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

- Steve Rushin

I can enjoy an Arsenal-Chelsea match without having to worry about getting exclusive quotes afterwards from one of the participants as he makes his w…

- Steve Rushin

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff s…

- Steve Rushin

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of …

- Steve Rushin

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter …

- Steve Rushin

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, witho…

- Steve Rushin