His word is held in such high esteem that investment banks that structure derivative products for him don't require that he put up a lot of collateral.
"You can't even try to replace players like Lawrence - guys like him don't come around very often, " Wasps and England flanker Tom Rees told BBC Sport.
Folks here are used to being treated by the media the way a hamster is treated by a preschool class -- those who like the little critter still tend to patronize him, and those who don't like him don't know the first thing about him.
Asked how he saw a jury that didn't look at his client when they filed in, he insisted, "It doesn't mean anything if they don't look at him, if they don't look at him and then look at the floor, maybe, " said Bailey.
"He kept asking me (for money), and I kept telling him I don't have any, " she said.
Directors at auditions have told him "don't be so pathetic" when he thought he was just being himself.
And we're not laughing with him, we're laughing at him because we don't know him well enough to laugh with him.
Francis, who before he became pope was known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, said a fellow cardinal from Brazil had told him "don't forget the poor" as the votes stacked up in his favor.
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"From the conversation I had with him I don't see how he could have, to make the kind of authority of statement he is making from the comments that I made, " Kelly told the committee.
"In the years I spent at US Postal I learned a lot from Lance Armstrong, and I helped him win three Tours de France so if it wasn't for him I don't think I'd be here today, " he added.
While the image of him throwing Don Zimmer to the ground during Game 3 of the 2003 American League Championship Series will never leave our consciousness, Martinez does come across as a more mature and articulate student of the game whose assessments during the first night of the documentary were invaluable.
And don't try telling him that sports don't truly provide business and life lessons.
In his junior year there he pestered the deans into assigning him a former Oxford don to tutor him three hours a week in the history of ancient Greece.
"Sad as it would be to see him go I don't think anyone would begrudge him leaving but Martin will do his very best and he's a fantastic man-manager, " Collymore added.
Like him, love him, even marry him--just don't let him be your pension consultant.
"He probably didn't tell as many facts as Connie was trying to elicit from him, but I don't blame him, I wouldn't either, " said Virginia Medina.
But when I talk to him, I don't feel it's a life or death question for him.
Republicans don't oppose him any less after his re-election, and Democrats don't seem to support him any more.
He's injured and here they won't attend to him simply because they don't have anything to suture him with.
"On that one prior time, he did a runaway, and we located him, so we don't have a longstanding history file on him, " Richardson said.
They were over there double-teaming him because he don't want to be a gangbanger.
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Maybe in a few years I'll have to run against him, I don't know, so I'll take that back.
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So I have placed a call to him but I don't know what is going to happen.
"Without him, I don't know where we'd be, " senior guard Brandon Triche said.
"I would have had full disclosure on the DNA evidence whether they favour him (Mr Crawford) or don't favour him, " he said.
Mr. JEFFERY FELIX: Oh, we're voting for him, so don't worry.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators have searched the son's computer hard drive and told him "we don't have any evidence that they were in touch, " he said.
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