Mike Young
Mike Young
Wide receiver who played for four NFL teams from 1985-1994, the LA Rams, Denver Broncos, Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 February 1962
trying way becoming
I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.
world way just-being
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.
spiritual thinking goal
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.
thinking anxiety trying
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.
political degrees poetry-is
All poetry is political, to some degree.
choices
All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.
team reality thinking
I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.
baseball character focused good guys home late played road win
We were very focused tonight. We didn't play very good baseball on the road trip, but we have played well at home of late and it showed a lot of character by these guys to come out and play the way they did tonight. It was a big win for us.
incident shooting turned
We investigated one incident and it turned out to have been shooting on the ground, not at the helicopter.
enthusiasm excited kids late point season tend
We tend to get more inquiries right after the Olympics. Kids get excited by what they see on TV, but at that point it's usually late in the season and the enthusiasm cools down.
baseball basis believe bones career gave wanting work
I've made no bones about wanting to work more on a full-time basis with cricket, I gave up my baseball career to do this because I believe in it,
All of us are used to being frugal.