The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
“By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.”
“I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.”