To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.
Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.
If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary. . . .
I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.