Ralph Boston famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
-- Ralph Boston -
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
-- Ralph Boston -
So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
-- Ralph Boston
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
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For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
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I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
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For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
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