Young Thoroughbred Player

Famous quotes containing the words young, thoroughbred and/or player:

    “Being young you have not known
    The fool’s triumph, nor yet
    Love lost as soon as won,
    Nor the best labourer dead
    And all the sheaves to bind.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)