Young Thoroughbred Player

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

    “A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “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)