Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.


John Gregory Dunne

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People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
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So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY
Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD
there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN
It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN
The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I
I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I...
GREGORY CORSO
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who sho...
GREGORY NUNN
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN
Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
GREGORY NUNN
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,
GREGORY NUNN
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY
The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It sa...
GREGORY NUNN
And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you...
DICK GREGORY
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
DICK GREGORY
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very mi...
LADY GREGORY
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the ...
GREGORY CLARK
I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
DICK GREGORY
But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY
[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY
Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a...
KRISTIANA GREGORY
People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest a...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that...
GREGORY PECK
As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has ...
GREGORY PETSKO
We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
GREGORY BENFORD
The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyra...
LADY GREGORY
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Cool...
LADY GREGORY