1.   A guy like Gonzalez is just happy to have a uniform.

2.   This sounds tough on guys like Joe Smith and Latrell Sprewell, who have warred beginning to end this year.

3.   Tough guys like Charles Goodnight, John Chisholm and Oliver Loving pioneered routes to the railheads at Cheyenne, Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene.

4.   Maybe he was in pain after all, a tough guy like him.

5.   Along with guys like Michael Cooper, Byron Scott, Kurt Rambis and coach Pat Riley, they formed one of the greatest teams of all time.

6.   Also back in Seattle are all the Cleveland veterans, guys like Orel Hershiser, Dennis Martinez, Eddie Murray and Tony Pena.

7.   Also, guys like Michael and Scottie talk about the past a lot.

8.   Americans, still nursing the wounds of the Depression, and now faced with a World War, could use a guy like Joe.

9.   An average-looking guy like me has a chance to get someplace, to portray people the way they really are, without any frills.

10.   And guys like Murray do stories like this often enough with little attention.