If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

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 means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we all recognize is: always sit close to an exit and never trust a man who doesn't sweat.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.