There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks