M.C. Steve Quotes

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

Monogamy is a huge time-saver.

I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

I've worked too hard all my life to have my kids control my life.

I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan.

If you find something that works double down on it

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.

I read Write More, Sell More a few years ago and loved it.

Bob Bly is among the most accomplished self-employed copywriters in recent years.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.