We must have football. What would this country be without football in October? — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create...a generation of permanent cripples failed… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical proximity to Berkeley, the citadel of West Coast radicalism. Berkeley is right next door to Oakland, with nothing between them but a line on the map and a few street signs, but in many ways they… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
