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- British Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember seeing Letterman do stand-up on 'The Tonight Show.' Or, it's probably more accurate to say, I remember hearing him do stand-up, because the Carson show existed mainly as sound leaking under my bedroom door at night. I'd hear Johnny telling jokes and my dad laughing at them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning to write for 'Letterman' or '70s-era Carson.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.
- Feign
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.
- Nov 07, 2020
Quitting has always been the worst possible thing you can do in sports. It's downright un-American.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
- Nov 07, 2020