“Hey look, I consider Hank Williams, Captain Marvel, Marlon Brando, The Tennessee Stud, Clark Kent, Walter Cronkite, and J. Carrol Nalsh all influences. Now what is it — please — what is it exactly you people want to know?”
“One of my supreme ambitions is to live to be 120 years old and be able to say I never set foot inside Bloomingdale's”
"More than any other contemporary African-American athlete, his ability to thrive in the pressure cooker of corporate America, while never making any embarrassing 'I’m not black, I’m universal' comments or selling his soul rather than just his visage, makes him a role model"
“The most popular Marvel hero has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, castration-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone”
“Belushi is a satirist not because he's mean or neurotic, he says, but because he likes to make people laugh”
A true journalist, Ward had no favorites — he would call B.S. on anyone and everyone (including himself)
