"I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size."

-- John Updike

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“It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.”

Source : "The best Gordon Strachan quips". www.thescottishsun.co.uk. January 16, 2013.
“I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.”
“If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don`t actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.”
“Ron Powlus will win the Heisman two times and be the greatest quarterback in the history of Notre Dame.”
“The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.”
“The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.”

Source : "Oh, Baby, I Love It!". Book by Ray Robinson and Tim McCarver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1987.
“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
“Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.”

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