"There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach."

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Source : Rick Reilly (2003). “The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly”, Sports Illustrated

Rick Reilly

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“I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.”
“So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.”
“Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.”
“You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.”
“It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing”
“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.”
“Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.”
“If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.”

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