The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

Football will always be my foremost passion.

Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.