Rick Reilly Quotes

He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He’s a very ill man. He doesn’t get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don’t matter to him.

If Every-day People Could Use Athletes’ Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: “I don’t know. I just came out a little flat. You can’t get hyped up every single day.”)

If a caddy can help you, you don’t know how to play golf. —DAN JENKINS

According to USA Today, as of mid-2016, Trump had been part of more

than 3,500 lawsuits in his life. That’s almost 50 lawsuits a year, since birth.

If you’ll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you’ll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you’re adamant that the poor don’t deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don’t deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?

I love caddies because caddies will tell you the truth and use very few words doing it.

Paula Creamer). It was one of those speed paintings. You

I’VE BEEN COVERING PRO golf since 1979,

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Not only that, if he double-bogeyed out, he’d break 100, which would be on a par with a lobster climbing out of the tank at Jimmy’s Seafood Grill, taking the stage and whistling the entire score of Cats. “Gentlemen, we

his son, Eric, who, in 2014, told golf writer James Dodson, “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.… We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.

when 17 people were murdered at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, Trump wanted teachers to start packing guns in class.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

a softer job—and maybe his body would hold out a few years longer. This physician didn’t realize the mound of debt that already had buried Billy. In the words of sportswriter Rick Reilly, Billy’s car distributorship didn’t “distribute near enough cars,” and he trusted people too much—friends took advantage of Billy and often didn’t pay him for cars they drove off the lot.12 He also had a family. They needed to eat, and since his business had failed, Billy knew only one way of putting bread on the table: Win it with his fists. So the sick man kept fighting. In fact, he entered the ring thirty more times after his fateful diagnosis. Most top heavyweights today fight maybe twice a year; Billy kept mixing it up in the ring every other month or so. And he didn’t

THE BIG LIE