Stanley Cup Final

Famous quotes containing the words stanley, cup and/or final:

    “I’ve tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I’d rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I’m sure I have contributed to false values—as Stanley Woodward said, “Godding up those ballplayers.”
    The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
    Life is a bitter sage,
    And we are weary infants
    In a palsied age.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Only in books the flat and final happens,
    Only in dreams we meet and interlock....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)