Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.