Always stay in with the outs.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.