Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Related Garrett, of course, has had his struggles, but he is a super jockey. I've always had faith in him an... BEAU GREELY He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it aroun... HARRY CREWS I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray. ROGER AILES February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson, DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We could tell he (Thompson) was getting tired in the seventh inning. He started to hang a few pitche... GARY MCNAMARA Everyone tries to double him, but he still gets 25 points a night. We knew he was going to get his, ... KYLE SCHELLIN I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. BEN GIBBARD Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was. ROGER STONE February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally... DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It's not a nice thing. I heard he was pretty crook, I didn't actually see him but I heard he was pre... COLIN COOPER Life has been so unfair to him. He knew what had happened to him was wrong, but you know what? He wa... BETTY RAY I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON He could play the physical game, but he also had talent. I was lucky enough to have him as my left w... JODY GAGE I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid fo... RUTH REICHL He was my favorite player because of the way he played the game. Pete Rose was a hustler. He really ... CHARLIE MANUEL He was a big man, about 6-5. He had this leadership aura about him. You knew he was in charge. He wa... DALLAS GREEN My father was a great, great fan of the game. I grew up watching it with him. He'd take me to see th... HOWDY GROSKLOSS He just said he was stiff and he was tight, but you knew it was hurting him because he only got to t... ANTOINE WALKER We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It ... KIMBERLY NOVOSEL Angelo was known for his ... grey afro, but he should also be known for being an excellent caddie, .... JACK NICKLAUS I think last year might have been a surprise, because last year, there was a thought that he could p... LYNN WASHOWICH When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS Ike had a lot of talent, but he was very raw. We knew we would have to work with him on his techniqu... DARREN PERRY Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for ... TOMMY LEE JONES My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers ... PETER DINKLAGE He was probably one of the most hard-working, caring people you'd ever meet. He had a great degree o... BOB MCDONALD Honestly, I didn't expect (Ecker) to be in the final, but I knew there was a spot for him in this to... ERIC DUSKO He was a valuable asset. He always helped me with the catchers, that's where his expertise was. He w... LYNDELL ZANOTTI My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... BRIAN BLESSED When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybo... DANIEL BRUHL God bless Brad Jones, he feels about as badly as he can feel. The first 30 days I represented him, I... CARL CORNWELL When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ... DENIS JOHNSON That changed the complexion of the game because we had to attack differently. Streeter was a monster... GREG GRANTHAM The quarterback was Condredge Holloway part of the time, but Randy Wallace and Pat Ryan also played.... DAVID PARSONS The best thing was the concentration that he had for the game. I still tell him, it was an honor and... ALBERT PUJOLS Hal was aggressive, but he was a great boss because you always knew exactly where you stood with him... RUSSELL SCHNEIDER My coach always knows how to motivate me, and he told me this was a true challenge. [Maddox] was tou... DOMINIQUE JOSEPH If it was his last day here, I'm truly embarrassed. (Because) it was an embarrassing game. Embarrass... ISAAC BRUCE I was very keen for Dennis to stay but he came in on Saturday morning and said he didn't think it wa... GEORGE BURLEY The thing I told Rod is that I would have hated to have to try and coach him. He just didn't listen,... DARREN PERRY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It was definitely important to get the playoff spot. We knew it was going to be really physical beca... MATT METCALF He could have killed me for the blunder— which really wasn’t my fault— but I was lucky , and h... FLOYD C. FORSBERG Reggie looks good walking across the parking lot. I always told him even if he got hurt playing foot... DONNIE VAN HOOK I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ... TUCKER CARLSON No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it wa... PAT CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena... CECILIA BARTOLI I saw him break and when he broke I knew he was in a good spot (to catch it). It wasn't a pretty pas... GARY BELLERBY He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h... GEOFF DYER I knew he had bought the ring but I had no idea he was going to ask me this morning. It was a comple... JULIE WILLIAMS The fractions were a little soft and I thought Stevie was a little closer than I wanted him to be bu... DAN HENDRICKS The reason Martin studied Japanese is because orchestra members teased him that he was illiterate in... CARRIE SMITH Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never k... AUSTIN GROSSMAN I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out. CATHERINE JINKS I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's tak... MARC MARON Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball ... ALFONSO SORIANO I am a fan of Cam Newton. I love watching him play the game. He is an unbelievable talent: throwing ... JORDAN RODGERS He?s been involved with (football) since he was a kid. It?s really a lifestyle for him. DEE JOZWIAK I just wanted to see a little bit more of that high level of play out of him before I stuck him into... DON CAHOON You're right,' said the corporal. 'It serves editors like that right. They only stir the people up. ... JAROSLAV HAšEK My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the f... FERNANDO TORRES He not only was my soccer coach, but a mentor for life. He was a friend. I have nothing but best wis... CHAD BROWN I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just ... DAN O'BRIEN He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. THOMAS M DISCH Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but h... CHRISTINA L. BARR I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and ... COREY TAYLOR [Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment o... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We met with him for two hours, and we talked about everything. He seldom laughed, that was one thing... TOMMY LASORDA He started to serve big. I think he knew he had to serve bigger because in the baseline rallies, I w... JURGEN MELZER He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it w... FAY WRAY His father was a great guy and was always a good fan. He loved Duke football, and he loved his son, ... BRIAN GREENE I just knew who it was. The light was on and I saw him. He had a ski mask on, but it was all open ..... JOHN GARRETT These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he wa... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As ... JACOB WREN Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Car... TED RALL Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean." He glanced at the house, then ... DIANA GABALDON I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump... DAN PINK He (Peel) was a wonderful person. He was a genuinely nice person, which is rare in this business. He... DAVID GEDGE I have to give Ibo (Cooper) his props, as a musician and the kind of musician who can lead a band or... ROGER LEWIS In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil f... GREGORY BENFORD I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his op... ROGER AILES It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for m... KATE BECKINSALE I coached Bobby in football when he was a seven. I always knew he was going to be a good athlete. DUANE BROWN I knew that the guy had touched it, and I think he knew that too. I don't know why he was doing that... ERREK SUHR I have to admit, when I saw [Wallace] come out I knew he was going to give me a good challenge. I kn... JONATHAN MOORE Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and grea... JOHN POLKINGHORNE I think people forgave him for that. He was always such a macho guy, but that night, he wasn't. But ... HANK KAPLAN When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th... BILL GRANGER I was a hunter and he was a fisherman and he got me hooked on fishing. DAVID MAULDIN He was a good athlete, and he made up for whatever speed he might have lacked by being a natural foo... WALT HARRIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES He was annoyed because the Giants were losing. He told me he was on vacation for a week, but he was ... MASON NGUYEN It was good to see us able to get Wes in the game. He has filthy stuff, but got a fastball in the wr... DAN WATKINS
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THOMPSON The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We can't stop here, this is bat country! HUNTER S. THOMPSON A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!" HUNTER S. THOMPSON Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Buy the ticket take the Ride HUNTER S. THOMPSON If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. HUNTER S. THOMPSON We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Good people drink good beer. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON