From Deseret News archives:
Larry Miller: You know this guy?
Do you now?
Did you know that he was once a school-boy marble champion and practiced his craft every day for three years?
Did you know he was a horrible student and that he lasted about a month in college?
Did you know he was brilliant? Or that he once scored so high on a college entrance test that school officials thought he cheated?
Did you know he consulted his church's president before he bought the Utah Jazz and that he risked everything to buy the team?
Did you know he had a dream that promised prosperity if he would obey one of his church's commandments?
Did you know that he has been in love with the same girl since junior high?
But did you know he didn't meet his real father until the latter introduced himself at a softball game?
Did you know that while he was working 90-hour weeks that he rarely saw his children when they were growing up and that he beats himself up over it?
Did you know that he has been granted a second chance at raising a child?
Did you know that this intense, driven man collects poems and literary passages and wise sayings, makes notes for speeches in a tiny notebook and can go on and on about paintings and statues that move his soul?
'No wonder we're tired'
All you have to do is look at that right elbow to learn much about Miller. Strangely elongated and pointed, it looks as if a broom handle has been inserted in the joint. It's a cartoon elbow, borrowed from Popeye. If Karl Malone had this elbow, he would be illegal. The elbow is the product of pitching a softball for 27 years.
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