Thousand Yards

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or yards:

“O farewell griefe, and welcome joye,
Ten thousand times therefore;”
—Unknown. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (l. 49–50)

“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)