A ton of athletes, even if they know your name, pretend they don't.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

There are more great guys than jerks, so it's a huge list.

Donald [Driver] is a good guy, a righteous guy. I have no beef with him. But I have multiple sources on this; people not connected with one another who verified it.

I'm not saying - in any way - that Donald Driver is lying or lacking sincerity. But I trust my reporting.

If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself.

I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.

the mind is a neural computer

Nana always said the rain was Nature's way of adding sparkle to the outdoors.

I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.

I was x years old in the year x2.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.