Net Yards

Famous quotes containing the words net and/or yards:

    “Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)

    “In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)