Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or yards:
“If it were lost in Übermenschlichkeit,
Perhaps our wretched state would soon come right.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“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)