From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction an addiction and a tacit conspiracy.
Sports is all about money.
Sports betting is all about money management so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
To be candid with you free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports I don't believe that.
I think money in general hurts all sports.
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
For guys playing sports at a high level for money I can't put my finger on it but in a man's world of sport there is something visceral to beating another man.
I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money it's a whole other level.