We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.
The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.
If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.