Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."
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"There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment."
Hunter S. Thompson
"There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane."
Hunter S. Thompson
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."
Hunter S. Thompson
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
Hunter S. Thompson
"As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn."
Hunter S. Thompson
"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
Hunter S. Thompson
"I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Hunter S. Thompson
"The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it."
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