Boston Marathon Winner

Famous quotes containing the words boston, marathon and/or winner:

“Tonight I appear for the first time before a Boston audience—4,000 critics.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)