Sports is the only entertainment where no matter how many times you go back you never know the ending.
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages sometimes I write them in a column sometimes in a novel sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes in times of difficulty can be important role models.
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports and especially relationships between players and coaches that people lose track lose a sense of reality.
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible it's unbelievable.
The idea is we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic religious geographic political.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in where money is a little harder to come by things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
I used to be a discipline problem which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.
Similarly thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress withdrawal and asocial manner. Dozens of times I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.
I hope there have been times when I made you all proud or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.
Sometimes Queens' music is dark but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.