In the words of Sigmund Freud: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

It’s not always necessary or appropriate to look for latent meaning when the manifest interpretation is the better one.

Seems to me YOU are the fool … obviously he was refering to the discipline Clemens had.

Hughes was referring to Clemens’ workout routine and the way he prepares himself, wasn’t he? I see nothing wrong with what he said.