'I've been misquoted' is footballers' favourite excuse I was talking to Jonathan Agnew about Fredalopedalogate the other day and the dear old thing was candid about his own occasional lack of candour.
"He says interesting things, he's candid and he's a good listen for anyone interested in baseball," said Dave Roberts, ESPN New York's general manager.
I think things like being candid with folks, treating people honestly, listening to both sides of any issue, working hard at trying to accomplish your goals -- those are the things that are always respected.
I caught up with the GM of Intel's cloud services platform Peter Biddle who had some remarkably candid things to say about what Oculus could do for the adult industry, Biddle was one of the major people involved in an acquisition for the company years ago, whose sole purpose was, in his words, "to basically have to do 10 things, in no particular order, to make the virtual reality dream come true".
From a Davis Cup report comes this quote, however, which is both not the kind of candid thing you usually hear from a professional athlete and an indicator of where that superb win over Nishikori came from.
That is a remarkably candid thing for a chief financial officer to say: part of the reason Sprint is growing so slowly is that the company is now stuck with a data communications unit that was damaged through neglect when Sprint thought it would have to sell that division to someone else.
Possibly the best thing about this candid moment is little Jax's reaction.
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It's saying things that are too candid.
Yet by the time he wrote "O, Thou Opening, O," from "The Waking," even Roethke seems to have grown impatient with his style: "And now are we to have that pelludious Jesus-shimmer over all things, the animal's candid gaze, a shade less than feathers... I'm tired of all that, Bag-Foot".
