Edward Smith famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.
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When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
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I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .
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The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.
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Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."
-- Edward Smith
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The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,
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I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
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Women's football does have its knockers.
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I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.
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