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    He's also had two offers for book deals. "I have a million stories ... I tracked down Arnold Schwarzenegger at Gold's Gym in California. When I went to (Olympics decathlon gold medal winner) Bruce Jenner's house, he invited us in for a beer." Smith was also able to locate international track star Houston McTear living homeless under the pier in Santa Monica. Full Article at NorthJersey.com
    I have a million stories ... I tracked down Arnold Schwarzenegger at Gold's Gym in California. When I went to (Olympics decathlon gold medal winner) Bruce Jenner's house, he invited us in for a beer.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
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  1. The $3,500 price tag is as crazy as my $2 million price tag
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  2. There's a network of about four or five guys around the tri-state area that do this for a living, but this is just something I do for fun and make a little extra money to keep fueling my collection
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  3. If there are 15-20 collectors there, there's no shot the players will come over
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  4. I used to have New York hotel security in my pocket. They'd tell me where he was. For two or three years I'd ride elevators with him and he'd sign all my stuff. He stopped signing when he started bringing in a lot of money.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  5. He stops and signs for me and only me when I see him now ... There's some kind of uglier sides of some of the people I go after, but they always treated me very nice, and (Simpson and Tyson) have always been polite and respectful.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  6. Both my father and Ali taught me that it's a lot easier to be nicer to people. It takes too much energy to be mean. That's Ali's whole philosophy ... Ali told me once, 'Every time I sign an autograph, it puts me one step closer to God.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  7. He got to know me and like me from chasing him around for his autograph for years
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  8. I know there's always another day
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  9. I'd always just hang around and get my notebooks signed as a kid ... Then in 1972, my grandma gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated as a present, and like any packrat at that age, every time another issue would come in the mail, I'd put it in my closet and just build huge stacks.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago
  10. Let's say I'm in Miami ... I've got addresses for 20-30 athletes who live within a half-hour – always retired guys. Last time I was down there, I got an autograph from a woman who was about 60 and appeared as the cover model on the 1966 swimsuit edition.
    SOURCE: NorthJersey.com 4 weeks ago

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