Famous quotes containing the words yards and/or gained:
“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)
“Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)