"First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends"

-- Willie Pep

#Boxing Quotes #Legs Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.”
“After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.
“Fall was slipping quietly into winter”
“You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.”

Source : "Don't sleeve me this way". Interview with Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.
“Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar”
“No, Sherlock doesn't need another brain. But he could benefit from an extra heart.”
“What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship...”
“The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.”

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