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I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an...more

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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a mea...more

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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life o...more

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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, ...more

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

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Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of h...more

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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of ...more

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside i...more