We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

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 or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly