You're not a columnist. You're a reporter (who) writes long.

That takes a lot of guts, ... It's not hard for me to imagine having that kind of job.

Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

I'm not the one who writes the lineup.

Hal was a legend. Most of our readers know him as one of if not the greatest columnist in Cleveland sports history.

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.