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“He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He’s a very ill man. He doesn’t get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don’t matter to him.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“If Every-day People Could Use Athletes’ Excuses (Surgeon, after patient dies: “I don’t know. I just came out a little flat. You can’t get hyped up every single day.”)”
― Rick Reilly, Hate Mail from Cheerleaders: And Other Adventures in the Life of Reilly

“If you’ll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you’ll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you’re adamant that the poor don’t deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don’t deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“If a caddy can help you, you don’t know how to play golf. —DAN JENKINS”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“than 3,500 lawsuits in his life. That’s almost 50 lawsuits a year, since birth.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“According to USA Today, as of mid-2016, Trump had been part of more”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“his son, Eric, who, in 2014, told golf writer James Dodson, “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.… We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“Paula Creamer). It was one of those speed paintings. You”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“I love caddies because caddies will tell you the truth and use very few words doing it.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“Not only that, if he double-bogeyed out, he’d break 100, which would be on a par with a lobster climbing out of the tank at Jimmy’s Seafood Grill, taking the stage and whistling the entire score of Cats. “Gentlemen, we”
― Rick Reilly, Missing Links

“THE BIG LIE”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“when 17 people were murdered at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, Trump wanted teachers to start packing guns in class.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. —UNKNOWN Discover Your Next Great Read Get sneak peeks, book recommendations, and news about your favorite authors.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

“I’VE BEEN COVERING PRO golf since 1979,”
― Rick Reilly, So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game