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.

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.

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

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.

This book is for those of you who are tired of trying to squeeze into constrained categories, who long for a life without limits on who you are or who you will become.

It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.