"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."

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"Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces."

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"I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN."

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"I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it."

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"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports."

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"Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness."

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"Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it."

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"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."

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"Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now."

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"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."

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