“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man…” — Archibald MacLeish

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.