“They live in a different stratosphere, those two - Lemieux and Gretzky.”
Hockey commentator on Channel 39 in Austin Texas at some point in the late 1980s
“there is no real shame in retreating from an impossible situation or in fleeing from an enemy that seems too powerful to attack.”
Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s.
In my latest National Post column I say the possibly entry of John Baird into the Tory leadership race as a self-proclaimed “true blue” candidate who’s also modern raises the question of what exactly he thinks he believes… if anything. OK. Never mind exactly. Can we at least get a vague notion?
“You can’t bet the farm on it or you’ll buy the farm.”
Commentator on Blue Jays’ game on CBC Oct. 2, 1992 [specifically re a pitcher going low and away or high and tight]
“It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades