"This is God's world this is not the media's world"
About this Quote
The line works because it compresses two American authorities that often compete: religion and mass media. Sports media doesn’t merely report; it manufactures character arcs, rewards confession, and punishes deviation with labels (diva, distraction, locker-room cancer). Owens knows that machine intimately. By invoking God, he reaches for a court that can’t be hot-taked, sound-bited, or reduced to a chyron. It’s also a way to re-center the self: I answer to something bigger than your headlines, your tone, your “sources say.”
There’s edge in the simplicity. The repetition of “world” turns the phrase into a territorial dispute, as if the sideline scrum were an invasion. Yet it’s not purely anti-media; it’s anti-pretension. Owens is calling out the press’s tendency to act like referees of reality, not just chroniclers of it. In the celebrity-athlete economy, where visibility feels like ownership, he’s insisting on a hierarchy: the game, the life, the soul come first; the coverage comes after.
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| Topic | God |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Owens, Terrell. (2026, January 15). This is God's world this is not the media's world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-is-gods-world-this-is-not-the-medias-world-159763/
Chicago Style
Owens, Terrell. "This is God's world this is not the media's world." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-is-gods-world-this-is-not-the-medias-world-159763/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"This is God's world this is not the media's world." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-is-gods-world-this-is-not-the-medias-world-159763/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.





