I was never a pirate, I was a smuggler
I can never sleep the night before a battle
Davos of Flea Bottom had run with orphans and beggars, but Davos the smuggler was received by merchants and lords, when nobody would catch them
Stannis summoned me. For my salvation of Storm's End, l was to be granted a knighthood, a keep of my own and my son taken into Stannis's personal service