Traveling to exciting distant places, meeting exotic interesting people, and trying to choke them.
A friend of Mixed Martial Arts is a friend of mine.
Everything but opera.
Enter the Dragon, Shaft, Rocky, Vision Quest, Cool Hand Luke, On the Waterfront, Chinatown, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Chariots of Fire, The Usual Suspects, Blade Runner, Reservoir Dogs, Ran, Mystic River, Godfather I then II, Seven Samurai, Apocalypse Now, Rashomon, The Departed, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction.
The Sopranos
Favorite authors include John Le Carre, Carl Hiaasen, David Halberstam, Ernest Hemingway, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Rudyard Kipling, Elmore Leonard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Joseph Wambaugh.
All those serving my country in combat, now and forever back
Firemen
Nurses
Everyone who puts it on the line in ring, cage, or mat, especially the kids
Nelson Mandela