Status Updates From Flesh and Blood

Do you want to be famous or rich or do you want to be good? Being a fighter is like being a doctor or a lawyer or a writer or a general. You gotta be a pro. You gotta be a finished pro. Anybody can be good, but not just anybody can be perfect.

A fight Is like a war. You have to figure the other guy’s strengths and weaknesses. You study what the guy did in the past to figure out what he’s gonna do in the future. You always respect him.

You punch like a motherf@#$er with the left hand, The right hand is like a mule kicking downhill.

You spent that first day being fingerprinted, photographed, stripped, inoculated, lectured. A man with a rubber glove roaming around in your rectum. You were given a gray uniform, a blanket and a cell in D Block.

What. The. Fallon...

Now come on Sinatra, stop that Cupid stuff will you, c'mon. That's enough. 🎆🎇❤️💔🥊☑️✖️👣

Oh, man, do emotions run high when there's alcohol involved.

This story arc is like going 3 rounds with Ali, though it's a hell of an inspiring experience just to be here.

Why am I only now reading the work of Pete Hamill...

Definitely a sense of Jim Thompson pulp here, so brilliant to read, and at lightning speed.